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Friday, March 13th, 2015

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    1:58p
    NTP's Fate Hinges On 'Father Time' (InformationWeek)
    InformationWeek has a
    lengthy look     at the maintenance of the network time protocol (NTP)
    code. "Not all is well within the NTP open source project. The
    number of volunteer contributors -- those who submit code for periodic
    updates, examine bug reports, and write fixes -- has shrunk over its long
    lifespan, even as its importance has increased. Its ongoing development and
    maintenance now rest mostly on the shoulders of [Harlan] Stenn, and that's
    why NTP
    faces a turning point. Stenn, who also works sporadically on his own
    consulting business, has given himself a deadline: Garner more financial
    support by April, 'or look for regular work.'    "
    3:10p
    Friday's security updates

    CentOS has updated kernel (C6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated gnupg (multiple vulnerabilities), libgcrypt11 (multiple vulnerabilities), movabletype-opensource (multiple vulnerabilities), and nss (data smuggling).

    Fedora has updated krb5 (F21: multiple vulnerabilities) and suricata (F21: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated libarchive (M4: directory traversal), libssh2 (M4: denial of service), and qt3, qt4, qt5base (M4: denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated flash-player (13.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), osc (13.1, 13.2: command injection), and wireshark (13.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated gnome-shell, clutter, cogl, mutter (O7: lock screen bypass), httpd (O7: multiple vulnerabilities), ipa (O7: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (O7: multiple vulnerabilities), krb5 (O7: multiple vulnerabilities), libreoffice (O7: code execution), libvirt (O7: multiple vulnerabilities), qemu-kvm (O7: multiple vulnerabilities), and thunderbird (O7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated bind (SLE10: denial of service), flash-player (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities), and osc (SLE12: command injection).

    8:28p
    OpenSCAD 2015.03 released with text objects support (Libre Graphics World)

    Libre Graphics World has a look at the new release of OpenSCAD, the 3D solid-modeling tool often used in conjunction with 3D printers. The new features include support for complex text layout, offset functions for manipulating polygons, and the ability to generate height maps from PNG images. "The user interface got a few improvements as well: new startup dialog to quickly open recent files or examples from a library, new QScintilla-based code editor with folding support, SVG and AMF exporting, and more."

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