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Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

    Time Event
    10:04a
    [$] An update on the freedreno graphics driver
    The freedreno project was started by Rob Clark to create a free-software driver for the Adreno family of GPUs, which are used by the Qualcomm Snapdragon system-on-chip (SoC) family. He presented a status report on the project, along with some history and future plans, at the Embedded Linux Conference, which was held in San Jose, CA, March 23-25.

    Click below (subscribers only) for the full report from ELC 2015.

    12:39p
    Mourning Chris Yeoh
    From the OpenStack community comes the sad announcement of the passing of
    Chris Yeoh, a longtime free-software developer. "Chris was humble, helpful and honest. The OpenStack and broader Open Source
    communities are poorer for his passing.    " Those with memories of
    Chris are encouraged to contribute them to a collection being put together
    for his daughter.
    4:42p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    Arch Linux has updated ntp (two vulnerabilities).

    CentOS has updated kernel (C5: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated libxml2 (denial of service).

    Fedora has updated setroubleshoot (F21; F20: privilege escalation) and texlive (F21: arbitrary file removal).

    openSUSE has updated Chromium (13.2, 13.1: two vulnerabilities), libgit2 (13.2, 13.1: code execution), firefox, thunderbird (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), php5 (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), potrace (13.2, 13.1: denial of service), quassel (13.2, 13.1: denial of service), and subversion (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL5: multiple vulnerabilities), novnc (RHEL OSP6.0: VNC session hijacking), openstack-nova (RHEL OSP6.0: cross-site websocket hijack attack), openstack-packstack (RHEL OSP6.0: root command execution), and installer (RHEL OSP6.0: root command execution).

    Scientific Linux has updated kernel (C5: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated xorg-x11-libs (SLE11 SP3: privilege escalation).

    Ubuntu has updated libtasn1-3, libtasn1-6 (14.10, 14.04, 12.04, 10.04: denial of service) and mailman (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: path traversal attack).

    11:48p
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2015
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2015 is available.

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