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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

    Time Event
    4:14p
    Tuesday's security updates

    Arch Linux has updated flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated linux-2.6 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated icedtea-web (F21: applet execution).

    Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (MG5: multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated bind (13.2, 13.1: denial of service), criu (13.2: two vulnerabilities), icedtea-web (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), libgcrypt (13.2, 13.1: information disclosure), and python-django (13.1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated flash-plugin (RHEL5,6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated kernel (SLE11SP3: multiple vulnerabilities).

    4:22p
    Announcing the release of Fedora 23 Beta
    Fedora 23 beta has been released. "Fedora 23 includes a number of
    changes that will improve all of the
    editions. For example, Fedora 23 makes use of compiler flags to
    improve security by "hardening" the binaries against memory
    corruption vulnerabilities, buffer overflows, and so on. This is a
    "behind the scenes" change that most users won't notice through
    normal use of a Fedora edition, but will help provide additional
    system security.    " The final release is scheduled for late October.
    5:43p
    [$] Fuzzing with american fuzzy lop

    In September 2014 a serious security vulnerability that became known as Shellshock was found in Bash, which is the default shell in most Linux distributions. But it quickly turned out that the initial fix for Shellshock was incomplete. Various other related bugs were found only days after the publication, amongst them two severe vulnerabilities discovered by Michał Zalewski from the Google security team. In the blog post, Zalewski mentioned that he had found these bugs with a fuzzing tool that he wrote, which almost nobody knew back then: american fuzzy lop (afl).

    Subscribers can click below for the full article by guest author Hanno Böck.

    8:37p
    Firefox 41 released
    The release of Firefox 41 has been announced.
    "This release includes minor updates to personalize your Firefox
    Account and adds a new functionality to Firefox Hello Beta.    " The release
    notes     contain more information.

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