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Monday, August 24th, 2015

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    8:01a
    Kernel prepatch 4.2-rc8
    In the end, Linus decided to hold off one more week and release 4.2-rc8 instead of the final 4.2 kernel.
    "It's not like there are any real outstanding issues, and I waffled
    between just doing the release and doing another -rc. But we did have
    another low-level x86 issue come up this week, and together with the
    fact that a number of people are on vacation, I decided that waiting
    an extra week isn't going to hurt. But it was close. It's a fairly
    small rc8, and I really feel like it could have gone either way.    "
    4:39p
    Security advisories for Monday

    Debian-LTS has updated extplorer (cross-site scripting), roundup (multiple vulnerabilities), and wesnoth-1.8 (information leak).

    Mageia has updated libcryptopp (MG4,5: information disclosure), mediawiki (MG4,5: multiple vulnerabilities), openssh (MG4,5: multiple vulnerabilities), php (MG5; MG4: multiple vulnerabilities), and x11-server (MG5: permission bypass).

    openSUSE has updated wireshark (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities) and xfsprogs (13.2, 13.1: information disclosure).

    Red Hat has updated rh-ruby22-ruby (RHSCL2: DNS hijacking).

    Slackware has updated gnutls (denial of service).

    SUSE has updated glibc (SLE11SP3,4: multiple vulnerabilities) and kvm (SLE11SP2: two vulnerabilities).

    10:26p
    Ubuntu on the Mainframe: Interview with Canonical's Dustin Kirkland (Linux.com)
    Linux.com has an
    interview with Dustin Kirkland     of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and
    Strategy team, about Ubuntu on the mainframe and more. "Canonical is doing a lot of different things in the enterprise space, to solve different problems. One of the interesting works going on at Canonical is Fan networking. We all know that the world is running out of IPv4 addresses (or already has). The obvious solution to this problem is IPv6, but it’s not universally available. Kirkland said, "There are still places where IPv6 doesn't exist -- little places like Amazon web services where you end up finding lots of containers." The problem multiplies as many instances in cloud need IP addresses. "Each of those instances can run hundreds of containers, each of those containers then needs to be addressable," said Kirkland."

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