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Friday, October 16th, 2015

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    1:49p
    Red Hat acquires Ansible
    Red Hat has announced
    that it is acquiring Ansible, the company behind the Ansible configuration
    management system. "Ansible's automation capabilities, together
    with Red Hat's existing management portfolio, will help users drive down
    the cost and complexity of deploying and managing both cloud-native and
    traditional applications across hybrid cloud environments.    " LWN looked at Ansible in August.
    4:39p
    Security advisories for Friday

    Arch Linux has updated firefox (information disclosure).

    Debian-LTS has updated zendframework (SQL injection).

    Fedora has updated kernel (F22: privilege escalation).

    Mageia has updated 389-ds-base (cipher downgrade), cyrus-imapd (unspecified), and wireshark (denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated flash-player (13.2, 13.1: unspecified).

    Oracle has updated lxc (OL7; OL6: apparmor policy bypass).

    Red Hat has updated chromium-browser (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities), openstack-glance (RHELOSP: two vulnerabilities), openstack-neutron (RHELOSP: ACL bypass), openstack-nova (RHELOSP: denial of service), openstack-swift (RHELOSP: information disclosure), python-django (RHELOSP: multiple vulnerabilities), and qemu-kvm-rhev (RHELOSP: code execution).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (SLE12; SLE11SP3,4: unspecified).

    Ubuntu has updated click (15.04, 14.04: privilege escalation), firefox (15.04, 14.04, 12.04: information disclosure), and postgresql-9.1, postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.4 (15.04, 14.04, 12.04: two vulnerabilities).

    6:32p
    The GNU ethical repository criteria
    The Free Software Foundation has announced the
    posting of a set
    of criteria     meant to be used for judging the suitability of
    code-hosting sites. "The criteria emphasize protection of privacy
    (including accessibility through the Tor network), functionality without
    nonfree JavaScript, compatibility with copyleft licensing and philosophy,
    and equal treatment of all users' traffic.    "
    6:38p
    Appeals Court Gives Google A Clear And Total Fair Use Win On Book Scanning (Techdirt)
    Here's a
    lengthy Techdirt article     looking through the US Appeals Court ruling
    that Google's scanning of books constitutes fair use under copyright law.
    "Thus, while authors are undoubtedly important intended beneficiaries
    of copyright, the ultimate, primary intended beneficiary is the public,
    whose access to knowledge copyright seeks to advance by providing rewards
    for authorship.    "
    6:49p
    How a few legitimate app developers threaten the entire Android userbase (Ars Technica)
    Ars Technica reports
    that a handful of app distributors are putting many Android users at risk by
    bundling root exploits with their wares. "It took just one month of part-time work for the computer scientists to reverse engineer 167 exploits from a single provider so they could be reused by any app of their choosing. Ultimately, the researchers concluded that the providers, by providing a wide array of highly customized exploits that are easy to reverse engineer and hard to detect, are putting the entire Android user base at increased risk."

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