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Friday, May 22nd, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 2:52p |
Friday's security updates Arch Linux has updated chromium (multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated chromium-browser (multiple vulnerabilities), fuse (privilege escalation), and ntfs-3g (privilege escalation).
SUSE has updated KVM (SLES11
SP1: multiple vulnerabilities),
SUSE Manager Server 1.7 (SLE11 SP2: multiple vulnerabilities), and Xen (SLE11 SP3: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated apport
(two privilege escalation vulnerabilities), fuse (privilege escalation), ntfs-3g (privilege escalation), oxide-qt (14.04, 14.10, 15.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and python-dbusmock (14.04, 14.10, 15.04:
code execution). | | 10:08p |
Nocera: iio-sensor-proxy 1.0 is out! At his blog, Bastien Nocera announces
the 1.0 release of iio-sensor-proxy,
a framework for accessing the various environmental sensors (e.g.,
accelerometer, magnetometer, proximity, or ambient-light sensors) built
in to recent laptops. The proxy is a daemon that listens to the
Industrial I/O (IIO) subsystem and provides access to the sensor
readings over D-Bus. As of right now, support for ambient-light
sensors and accelerometers is working; other sensor types are in
development. The current API is based on those used by Android and
iOS, but may be expanded in the future. "For future versions,
we'll want to export the raw accelerometer readings, so that
applications, including games, can make use of them, which might bring
up security issues. SDL, Firefox, WebKit could all do with being
adapted, in the near future." |
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