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Friday, November 6th, 2015

    Time Event
    5:43p
    Friday's security updates

    Arch Linux has updated nspr (code execution) and nss (code execution).

    Debian has updated libreoffice (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated drupal7 (F22: open redirect), mediawiki (F21; F22; F23: multiple vulnerabilities), python-pycurl (F23: use-after-free vulnerability), and xscreensaver (F21; F22: denial of service).

    Mageia has updated libebml (M5: multiple vulnerabilities), libtorrent-rasterbar (M5: code execution), libxml2 (M5: denial of service), libxslt (M5: denial of service), sddm (M5: denial of service), util-linux (M5: denial of service), and xscreensaver (M5: denial of service).

    SUSE has updated MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (12.04; 14.04; 15.04: multiple vulnerabilities), libreoffice (12.04, 14.04, 15.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-trusty (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-utopic (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-vivid (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and linux-ti-omap4 (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities).

    6:51p
    [$] A new Mindcraft moment?
    It is not often that Linux kernel development attracts the attention of a
    mainstream newspaper like The
    Washington Post; lengthy features on the kernel community's approach to
    security are even more uncommon. So when just such a feature hit the net, it attracted
    a lot of attention. This article has gotten mixed reactions, with many
    seeing it as a direct attack on Linux. The motivations behind the article
    are hard to know, but history suggests that we may look back on it as
    having given us a much-needed push in a direction we should have been going for
    some time.
    6:59p
    Trinity 1.6 released
    Dave Jones has announced, at
    long last, a new release of the Trinity kernel fuzz-testing tool.
    "At last weeks kernel summit, a number of people expressed just how
    useful they find Trinity and how much they were bummed to find out I wasn’t
    working on it any more. With that feedback, I felt motivated to clean the
    decks and get 1.6 out.    "

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