Update your cPanel!

[Frank Broughton]

SECURITY ADVISORY: cPanel Update Recommended
Posted: 09 May 2008 01:46 AM CDT
A weakness in the random data generation module included with cPanel has been identified. cPanel releases prior to 11.18.6 and 11.23.1 are susceptible to this security issue which is rated medium-critical.
Update Advisory
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All STABLE and RELEASE users are strongly urged to update to their respective 11.18.6 release. CURRENT and EDGE users should update to the latest 11.23.1 release. No releases are deemed susceptible to remote or root access vulnerabilities.

[atechstl]

I setup WHM to do Current Automatic Updates. I clicked "ok" to save the settings and it brought me to a screen to Update Now. Clicking on this, it looks like I have to wait, but won't it do it automatically anyway?

[JPC-Zishan]

cPanel setups a cronjob for /scripts/upcp so that if you set the Automatic Updates then the cPanel is updated automatically. You can check the cron under root user:

crontab -l