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Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

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    12:47a
    [$] Allowing small allocations to fail
    As Michal Hocko noted at the beginning of his session at the 2015 Linux
    Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit    , the news that the
    memory-management code will normally retry small allocations indefinitely
    rather than returning a failure status came as a surprise to many
    developers. In this session, the assembled group attempted to come up with
    ways to safely change this behavior. Click below (subscribers only) for
    the full report from LSFMM 2015.
    4:26p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    CentOS has updated bind (C6: denial of service).

    Debian has updated libssh2 (information leak), mod-gnutls (restriction bypass), and xen (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated axis (verification bypass).

    Mageia has updated gnupg, libgcrypt (information leak), icu (code execution), pngcrush (denial of service), and vsftpd (unauthorized access).

    openSUSE has updated autofs (13.2, 13.1: privilege escalation), glusterfs (13.1: denial of service), percona-toolkit (13.2, 13.1: man-in-the-middle attack), and putty (13.2, 13.1: information disclosure).

    Oracle has updated bind (OL6: denial of service).

    Red Hat has updated bind (RHEL6,7: denial of service).

    Ubuntu has updated ecryptfs-utils (information disclosure) and icu (12.04: regression in previous update).

    8:18p
    [$] GitHub unveils its Licenses API

    Since opening its doors in 2008, GitHub has grown to become the largest active project-hosting service for open-source software. But it has also attracted a fair share of criticism for some of its implementation choices—with one of the leading complaints being that it takes a lax approach to software licensing. That, in turn, leads to a glut of repositories bearing little or no licensing details. The company recently announced a new tool to help combat the license-confusion issue: a site-wide API for querying and reporting license information. Whether that API is up to the task, however, remains to be seen.

    11:03p
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2015
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2015 is available.

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