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Monday, November 3rd, 2014

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    12:52p
    Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc3
    The third 3.18 prepatch is out there for
    testing. Linus complained that things aren't slowing down as he would
    like, but doesn't seem too worried: "That said, I don't think there
    is anything particularly horrible in here. Lots and lots of small stuff,
    with drivers accounting for the bulk of it (both in commits and in lines),
    but networking and core kernel showing up too. Nothing particularly stands
    out.    " With this prepatch, the codename for the release has changed
    to "Diseased Newt."
    5:50p
    Security advisories for Monday

    Debian has updated icedove (multiple vulnerabilities), quassel (information disclosure), and wget (symlink attack).

    Fedora has updated fedup (F20: temporary directory creation) and phpMyAdmin (F19: cross-site scripting).

    Mageia has updated pulseaudio (denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated firefox, (13.1; 12.3: multiple vulnerabilities), gnome-settings-daemon (13.1: lock screen bypass), phpMyAdmin (13.1, 12.3: cross-site scripting), and thunderbird (13.1; 12.3: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated openstack-cinder (RHEL OSP for RHEL7; RHEL OSP for RHEL6: information disclosure), openstack-keystone (RHEL OSP for RHEL7; RHEL OSP for RHEL6: information leak), openstack-neutron (RHEL OSP for RHEL7; RHEL OSP for RHEL6: denial of service), openstack-nova (RHEL OSP for RHEL7; RHEL OSP for RHEL6: two vulnerabilities), and python-keystoneclient (RHEL OSP for RHEL7; RHEL OSP for RHEL6: man-in-the-middle attacks).

    SUSE has updated spacewalk-java (SUSE Manager1.7 for SLE11 SP2; SUSE Manager Server: cross-site scripting).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (14.10: multiple vulnerabilities).

    8:50p
    Vetter: Atomic Modeset Support for KMS Drivers
    For those who are interested in the grungy details of getting the new
    atomic modesetting operations working with existing graphics drivers,
    Daniel Vetter has
    the scoop    : "So I've just reposted my atomic modeset helper
    series, and since the main goal of all that work was to ensure a smooth and
    simple transition for existing drivers to the promised atomic land it's
    time to elaborate a bit. The big problem is that the existing helper
    libraries and callbacks to driver backends don't really fit the new
    semantics, so some shuffling was required to avoid long-term pain. So if
    you are a driver writer and just interested in the details then read for
    what needs to be done to support atomic modeset updates using these new
    helper libraries.    "

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