Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Time	Event
8:08a	Four more stable kernel updates The 4.2.5, 4.1.12, 3.14.56, and 3.10.92 stable kernels are available; each contains another set of important fixes. (Comment on this)
4:17p	Tuesday's security updates Arch Linux has updated vorbis-tools (denial of service). CentOS has updated ntp (C7; C6: two vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated libxml2 (regression in previous update). Mageia has updated iceape/sqlite3 (multiple vulnerabilities) and virtualbox (two vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated nodejs (13.2, 13.1: denial of service), haproxy (13.2: information leak), and libressl (13.2: two vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated ntp (OL7; OL6: two vulnerabilities) and qemu-kvm (OL7: denial of service). Red Hat has updated ntp (RHEL6,7: two vulnerabilities) and qemu-kvm (RHEL7: denial of service). Scientific Linux has updated ntp (SL6,7: two vulnerabilities) and qemu-kvm (SL7: denial of service). Ubuntu has updated apport (privilege escalation). (Comment on this)
6:26p	EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that the Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the right to inspect and modify the software in their cars and other vehicles. "EFF also won an [DMCA] exemption for users who want to play video games after the publisher cuts off support. For example, some players may need to modify an old video game so it doesn’t perform a check with an authentication server that has since been shut down. The Librarian also granted EFF’s petition to renew a previous exemption to jailbreak smartphones, and extended that to other mobile devices, including tablets and smartwatches. This clarifies the law around jailbreaking, making clear that users are allowed to run operating systems and applications from any source, not just those approved by the manufacturer. EFF also won the renewal and partial expansion of the exemptions for remix videos that use excerpts from DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, or downloading services." (Comment on this)
10:25p	[$] The Dirk and Linus show comes to Seoul One of the recurring features of Linux Foundation events is an on-stage discussion between Dirk Hohndel and Linus Torvalds on a variety of kernel-related topics. The Korea Linux Forum in Seoul, South Korea did not diverge from this pattern. The pair talked about a wide range of topics; there were few surprises and little that will be controversial, but the discussion did include some insights into how the community is doing and where the kernel is going. (Comment on this)

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