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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015

    Time Event
    5:08p
    Tuesday's security updates

    Debian has updated ruby1.9.1 (multiple vulnerabilities) and unrtf (code execution).

    Mageia has updated clamav (heap overflow), moodle (information disclosure), and polarssl (code execution).

    Mandriva has updated cabextract (denial of service), clamav (heap overflow), glibc (code execution), otrs (privilege escalation), and zarafa (denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated curl (13.2, 13.1: two vulnerabilities), grep (13.2: heap buffer overrun), llvm (13.1: insecure temporary files), openvas-manager (13.2: sql injection), and rsync (13.2, 13.1: code execution).

    Ubuntu has updated binutils (multiple vulnerabilities) and ntp (two vulnerabilities).

    7:02p
    GCC 5 in Fedora (Red Hat developer blog)
    Last week the Red Hat developer blog looked at some changes coming with GCC5.
    This week's article
    covers how those changes will be handled in Fedora. "One consequence of this decision will be that Fedora 22 and Fedora 23 will both have GCC 5, but they’ll be fundamentally different. The C++ library (libstdc++.so) will be
    compatible between F22 and F23 (in fact, it will be almost exactly the same,
    modulo some extra patches from upstream that might be pulled into the later F23 build). The difference will be all the other DSOs that link to it. That’s important for Fedora developers to note.

    Specifically, FESCo’s decision means the C++ standard library headers installed by the
    libstdc++-devel RPM will have a different default value for the _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI macro (0 in F22 and 1 in F23) but the libstdc++.so library will be largely the same in F22 and F23, because that library contains all the symbol definitions for both the old ABI and the new ABI, so that the same library works for both cases.
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