Friday, May 9th, 2014

Time	Event
3:15p	Friday's security updates CentOS has updated kernel (C6: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated rxvt-unicode (code execution). Mageia has updated kernel (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel-linus (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel-rt (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), owncloud (M3, M4: multiple vulnerabilities), and postgresql (M4: multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated apache-mod_security (BS1, ES5: rules bypass), mediawiki (BS1: multiple vulnerabilities), openssl (BS1: denial of service), and python-imaging (BS1: multiple vulnerabilities). Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated kvm (SLES/SLED 11: multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated cups-filters (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
7:03p	Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules (Ars Techica) Ars Technica is reporting that the appeals court has overturned US District Judge William Alsup's ruling that the Java API was not copyrightable. "'Because we conclude that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the API packages are entitled to copyright protection, we reverse the district court’s copyrightability determination with instructions to reinstate the jury’s infringement finding as to the 37 Java packages,' the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit ruled [PDF] Friday." (Comment on this)

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