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Monday, July 27th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 3:42a |
Kernel prepatch 4.2-rc4 The fourth 4.2 prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: " I really wish that things were calming down, but it
hasn't happened quite yet. It's not like this is particularly big or scary,
but it's also not at the stage where it's really starting to get quiet and
the bugs are really small and esoteric." | | 5:10p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated expat (code execution), lxc (two vulnerabilities), and openjdk-7 (multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian-LTS has updated expat
(code execution), ghostscript (buffer overflow), and lighttpd (man-in-the-middle attack).
Mageia has updated apache (MG4,5:
two vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk
(MG5: multiple vulnerabilities), libuser
(MG4,5: two vulnerabilities), and mariadb
(MG4,5: multiple vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated cacti (13.2,
13.1: SQL injection), Chromium (13.2, 13.1:
multiple vulnerabilities), java-1_7_0-openjdk (13.2, 13.1: multiple
vulnerabilities), and java-1_8_0-openjdk
(13.2: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated chromium-browser (RHEL6: multiple
vulnerabilities) and qemu-kvm (RHEL7: two vulnerabilities). | | 7:48p |
The Android "Stagefright" vulnerability Here is an
article on the "Threatpost" site about a set of remotely exploitable media-library vulnerabilities present on vast numbers of Android devices. " An attacker in possession of their target’s phone number could send
an MMS or even a Google Hangouts message to an affected device that
triggers the vulnerability before the victim has a chance to open the
message. In some cases, the attack would delete the MMS in question,
leaving behind only a notification that a message was sent." | | 9:37p |
The Dronecode Foundation aims to keep UAVs open (Opensource.com) Opensource.com follows
up with the Dronecode Foundation, which was founded in October 2014. " In the past year, Dronecode's developer community has grown from 1,200 to more than 2000 contributors, with more than 12,000 commits in the codebase. The rate of development is rapid with 1,000 commits being reviewed a month, with well over 2 million lines of code across the various Dronecode projects. Developers from Qualcomm, Intel, Parrot, Yuneec and many others are actively engaged in the development of the Dronecode technology stack. As a result, updates, new releases and project milestones are in motion all the time. For example, in late May, the APM project released version 3.3 of its flight code, and the PX4 project reached a milestone with the first RC candidate for release 1.0." |
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