Monday, October 29th, 2012

Time	Event
2:25p	[$] Thoughts on the ext4 panic In just a few days, a linux-kernel mailing list report of ext4 filesystem corruption turned into a widely-distributed news story; the quality of ext4 and its maintenance, it seemed, was in doubt. Once the dust settled, the situation turned out to be rather less grave than some had thought; the bug in question only threatened a very small group of ext4 users using non-default mount options. As this is being written, a fix is in testing and should be making its way toward the mainline and stable kernels shortly. The bug was obscure, but there is value in looking at how it came about and the ripples it caused. (Comment on this)
5:38p	Security advisories for Monday CentOS has updated firefox (C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated request-tracker3.8 (multiple vulnerabilities) and rtfm (privilege escalation). Fedora has updated phpmyadmin (F17; F16: multiple vulnerabilities), bcfg2 (F17; F16: code execution), drupal7 (F17; F16: code execution) and kernel (F17: memory leak). Mageia has updated freeradius (code execution), inn (man-in-the-middle attack), libproxy (buffer overflow), cups-pk-helper (privilege escalation), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities), viewvc (cross-site scripting), java-1.7.0-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities) and java-1.6.0-openjdk (MG2; MG1: multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated exim (multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated firefox (OL6; OL5: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). Slackware has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)

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