Friday, April 24th, 2015

Time	Event
2:59p	Friday's security updates Arch Linux has updated powerdns (denial of service) and powerdns-recursor (denial of service). Debian-LTS has updated subversion (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated lcms (F20: denial of service) and php (F21: multiple vulnerabilities). Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), chrony (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), lftp (M4: SSL server spoofing), libksba (M4: denial of service), ntop (M4: cross-site scripting), setup (M4: information disclosure), and t1utils (M4: multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated firefox (13.1; 13.2: code execution) and socat (13.1: denial of service). Oracle has updated kernel (kernel 3.8.18 (O6, O7); kernel 2.6.39 (O5, O6); kernel 2.6.32 (O5, O6): multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated novnc (RHEL OSP4: VNC session hijacking). Ubuntu has updated firefox (code execution), usb-creator (12.04, 14.04, 14.10; 15.04: privilege escalation), and wpa_supplicant (14.04, 14.10: code execution). (Comment on this)
7:24p	Rust Once, Run Everywhere The Rust blog has posted a guide to using Rust's foreign function interface (FFI) with C code. Highlighted in particular are Rust's safe abstractions, which are said to impose no costs. "Most features in Rust tie into its core concept of ownership, and the FFI is no exception. When binding a C library in Rust you not only have the benefit of zero overhead, but you are also able to make it safer than C can! Bindings can leverage the ownership and borrowing principles in Rust to codify comments typically found in a C header about how its API should be used." (Comment on this)

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