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Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

    Time Event
    4:24p
    Tuesday's security updates

    Debian has updated postgresql-9.4 (two vulnerabilities) and wordpress (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated opensmtpd (F22: multiple vulnerabilities) and sssd (F22; F21: memory leak).

    openSUSE has updated flash-player (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated librsvg (SLE11SP3,4: denial of service) and qemu (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (14.04; 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-trusty (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-utopic (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and linux-ti-omap4 (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities).

    7:26p
    ownCloud Server 8.2 released
    OwnCloud Server 8.2 is available.
    This release features a a revamped user interface and many improvements for
    ownCloud administrators. "ownCloud Server 8.2 makes it possible for
    ownCloud Administrators to send their users notifications, useful to let
    users know about a maintenance window for example. Admins can now also set
    limits on trash and version retention, ensuring that trashed files and
    versions get deleted after a set number of days or are not purged for a
    certain period. The occ command line tool has gained significant new maintenance and control features. It enables encrypting, decrypting and re-encrypting existing user data and can now set and get system and app configuration values. It can also be used to rescan the file system and update mime types after custom types have been defined.    "
    8:19p
    [$] Rich access control lists
    Access control lists (ACLs) can implement finer-grained access permissions
    for files than the traditional Unix mode bits. Linux has ACL support, but
    the POSIX ACLs supported by
    Linux now have been showing their age for a while. POSIX ACLs may soon be
    superseded by a more capable mechanism known as RichACLs. Click below (subscribers only) for
    a look at RichACLs and what they bring to Linux.

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