Friday, March 6th, 2015

Time	Event
4:58p	Friday's security updates Debian has updated libarchive (directory traversal). Debian-LTS has updated eglibc (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated gnupg (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), libjpeg-turbo (F20; F21: denial of service), and qt (F20: denial of service). Gentoo has updated jasper (multiple vulnerabilities). Mageia has updated dokuwiki (M4: access control circumvention), maradns (M4: denial of service), python (M4: missing hostname check), vlc (M4: code execution), and vorbis-tools (M4: multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated chromium (13.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities) and php5 (13.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated 389-ds-base (O6: information disclosure). Red Hat has updated 389-ds-base (RHEL6; RHEl7: information disclosure), chromium-browser (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), glibc (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), gnome-shell, mutter, clutter, cogl (RHEL7: denial of service), hivex (RHEL7: code execution), httpd (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), ipa (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), krb5 (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), libreoffice (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), libvirt (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), openssh (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), openstack-glance (RHEL OSP6: denial of service), pcre (RHEL7: denial of service), powerpc-utils (RHEL7: information disclosure), ppc64-diag (RHEL7: information disclosure), qemu-kvm (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), qemu-kvm-rhev (RHEL OSP6: buffer overflow), redhat-access-plugin-openstack (RHEL OSP6: information disclosure), thunderbird (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), and virt-who (RHEL7: credentials disclosure). Slackware has updated samba (14.1: code execution). SUSE has updated PHP 5.3 (SLES11: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
9:30p	Edmundson: High DPI Progress At his blog, David Edmundson writes about the state of high-DPI support in KDE. "For some applications supporting high DPI has been easy. It is a single one line in KWrite, and suddenly all icons look spot on with no regressions. For applications such as Dolphin which do a lot more graphical tasks, this has not been so trivial. There are a lot of images involved, and a lot of complicated code around caching these which conflicts with the high resolution support without some further work." He is personally tracking the progress of many applications, but notes that there are many unsolved issues. "There are still many applications without a frameworks release even in the upcoming 15.04 applications release. Even in the next applications release in 15.08 August we are still unlikely to see a released PIM stack. Is it a good idea to add an option into our UIs that improves some applications at the cost of consistency? It's not an easy answer." This update is Edmunsdon's second post on the subject; the first, from November 2014, is also quite informative. (Comment on this)

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