Product Security Advisory – CVE-2021-3156

OverviewUbuntu recently announced security vulnerabilities that impact the exacqVision Network Video Recorder versions which use the Ubuntu Linux operating system. These affect a built-in Linux application called “Sudo” which controls the provisioning of super user (administrator) access to the operating system which, under certain circumstances, could be leveraged by an attacker to achieve unauthorized privilege… Continue reading Product Security Advisory – CVE-2021-3156

Enabling Onboard Keyboard in exacqVision Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 Images

In 2013, the exacqVision Ubuntu 10.04 image was rebuilt, and the onboard keyboard configuration was not in included in the rebuild. Affected images can be easily identified by the Exacq wallpaper displayed on the Desktop. Also, because of an issue with onboard packages found in the Ubuntu repository, the onscreen keyboard was not included in… Continue reading Enabling Onboard Keyboard in exacqVision Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 Images

Factory defaulted Illustra cameras cannot be discovered by exacqVision running on Ubuntu

Symptom When Illustra cameras are factory defaulted they have a gateway value of 0.0.0.0 in the network settings. Ubuntu servers use a mechanism called “reverse path filtering” set <br> Affected platforms Illustra Pro, Flex and Essentials camerasUbuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 <br> Workaround Edit the network security configuration file in /etc/sysctl.d/Change the value from Strict mode… Continue reading Factory defaulted Illustra cameras cannot be discovered by exacqVision running on Ubuntu

Changing the Kiosk User Language On Ubuntu/Linux

Systems built by Exacq with Ubuntu 16.04 and higher will have an ‘Exacq Kiosk User’ icon on the administrator’s Desktop. More details on Kiosk users can be found at KB:22542. Click to run this program. There should be no users listed here when you begin. If there are already Kiosk user accounts created, the following configuration… Continue reading Changing the Kiosk User Language On Ubuntu/Linux

Setting up the Kiosk User for ExacqVision Systems

Windows systems built by ExacqVision no longer ship with a default ‘admin’ and restricted ‘user’ account beginning with Windows 10. Some early Ubuntu 16.04 images still contain the ‘admin’ account, but do not have the restricted ‘user’ (this was changed in a later image will not have either ‘admin’ or ‘user’).  This change is due… Continue reading Setting up the Kiosk User for ExacqVision Systems

ExacqPacq16 – Service Pack for exacqVision Systems running Ubuntu 16.04.

Several changes and fixes to the exacqVision Ubuntu 16.04 image have been rolled into a single installer – ExacqPacq16.  Information regarding the changes and the version that were included are available below.  You can check the current Image version and what exacqpacq16 versions (if any) on your Linux machine by running the following in terminal:… Continue reading ExacqPacq16 – Service Pack for exacqVision Systems running Ubuntu 16.04.

exacqVision Export Video File Types

Video may be exported from exacqVision in different formats. The table below illustrates some of the differences in these formats. Multi-Camera: For the purposes of this article, multi-camera means many camera streams are combined into a single exported file. When exporting as .MOV, .AVI, or .MP4 each stream will end up as its own file.… Continue reading exacqVision Export Video File Types

Adding Desktop Trash Bin in Ubuntu

Steps below are separated by version. To find your version, open a Terminal CLI using the Menu bar, or pressing CTRL+ALT+T. Enter one of the following commands will display your version information. <br> Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04 <br> Ubuntu 14.04 & 16.04 <br> Ubuntu 12.04 <br> Ubuntu 10.04 <br> Ubuntu 8.04 <br>

Manually Testing Email Notifications with cURL

Note: while you can test your profile/server via client’s Test Profile button, you won’t get cURL’s most complete debug information, which can sometimes be very informative when diagnosing notification failures. <br> ExacqVision Server versions 6.8 and higher use cURL to send notifications. If you are experiencing failures in sending notifications from the servers you may… Continue reading Manually Testing Email Notifications with cURL