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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015

    Time Event
    11:47a
    The 2015 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board elections
    The nomination process has begun for the 2015 election of the Technical
    Advisory Board for the Linux Foundation. That election will happen on
    October 26 at the Kernel Summit in Seoul, South Korea. There are five
    positions to be filled; terms are for two years.
    4:48p
    Security updates for Tuesday

    Arch Linux has updated nodejs (denial of service).

    Fedora has updated libvpx (F21: denial of service), openjpeg2 (F22: code execution), pixman (F22: buffer overflow), unzip (F21: two vulnerabilities), webkitgtk (F22; F21: denial of service), and webkitgtk3 (F22; F21: denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated apache2 (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), conntrack-tools (13.2, 13.1: denial of service), froxlor (13.2, 13.1: privilege escalation), redis (13.2, 13.1: code execution), seamonkey (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), and vorbis-tools (13.2, 13.1: code execution).

    SUSE has updated firefox, nspr (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (15.04; 14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-trusty (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-utopic (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-vivid (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and lxc (14.04: regression in previous update).

    6:40p
    Open Invention Network Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
    Open Invention Network (OIN) marks its ten year anniversary. "Since its founding in 2005, Open Invention Network has grown its community to over 1,700 participants – from sizable multinational companies to key open source projects to emerging businesses. OIN has expanded its strategic patent portfolio to more than 1,000 worldwide patents and applications. In parallel, the zone of patent non-aggression that is defined by OIN’s Linux System definition has evolved to include more than 2,300 software packages, which ensures freedom of action in core functionality for global open source projects and technology platforms such as Linux, Red Hat, SUSE, Android, Open Stack and Apache."

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