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Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

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    4:36p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    CentOS has updated firefox (C5; C6: multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (C5; C6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated chrony (two vulnerabilities), iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities), and python-django (denial of service).

    Fedora has updated graphite-web (F19; F18: unspecified vulnerability), libtiff (F18: code execution), and roundcubemail (F19; F18: two cross-site scripting flaws).

    Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (multiple vulnerabilities), flash-player-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities), mediawiki (multiple vulnerabilities), python-OpenSSL (certificate spoofing), python-setuptools (code execution), and subversion (privilege escalation).

    Mandriva has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated python (11.4: man in the middle attack) and python3 (11.4: man in the middle attack).

    Oracle has updated firefox (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities), and enterprise kernel (OL6; OL5: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel-rt (multiple vulnerabilities), and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Slackware has updated glibc (password disclosure), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities).

    7:20p
    Slackware 14.1 beta
    From the September 18 entry in the Slackware changelog:
    "Hey folks, I'm calling this a beta! Really, it's been better than beta
    quality for a while. There will probably still be a few more updates
    here and there (and certainly updates to the docs). Enjoy, and please test.    "
    7:21p
    CyanogenMod Inc.
    CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik has disclosed that he
    and sixteen others are now doing their CyanogenMod work as part of a
    company founded for that purpose — and that they have been doing so since
    April. "You have probably seen the pace of development pick up
    drastically over the past few months. More devices supported, bigger
    projects such as CM Account, Privacy Guard, Voice+, a new version of
    Superuser, and secure messaging. We vastly improved our
    infrastructure. We’re doing more bug fixes, creating more features, and
    improving our communication. We think that the time has come for your
    mobile device to truly be yours again, and we want to bring that idea to
    everybody.    " The first new thing will be an easier installer, but
    there is very little information on what the business model will be.
    10:23p
    [$] Asteroid "mining" with Linux and FOSS

    Planetary Resources is a company with a sky-high (some might claim "pie in the sky") goal: to find and mine asteroids for useful minerals and other compounds. It is also a company that uses Linux and lots of free software. So two of the engineers from Planetary Resources, Ray Ramadorai and Marc Allen, gave a presentation at LinuxCon North America to describe how and why the company uses FOSS—along with a bit about what it is trying to do overall. Subscribers can read the full account of the talk from this week's edition.

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