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Monday, November 30th, 2015

    Time Event
    3:18p
    Kernel prepatch 4.4-rc3
    The 4.4-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for
    testing. "I don't think there's anything particularly exciting,
    although that obviously depends on whether some particular issue ended up
    affecting you or not. Most of it is pretty tiny random fixups.    "
    3:30p
    Garrett: What is hacker culture?
    Matthew Garrett argues
    that meritocracy does not work as intended in development communities.
    "When people criticise meritocracy, they're not criticising the
    concept of treating contributions based on their merit. They're criticising
    the idea that humans are sufficiently self-aware that they will be able to
    identify and reject every subconscious prejudice that will affect their
    treatment of others. It's not a criticism of a desirable goal, it's a
    criticism of a flawed implementation.    "
    5:54p
    Security advisories for Monday

    Debian-LTS has updated imagemagick (denial of service), libsndfile (multiple vulnerabilities), libxml2 (multiple vulnerabilities), and nss (code execution).

    Fedora has updated abrt (F23: two vulnerabilities), mingw-libpng (F23; F22; F21: denial of service), python-pycurl (F22: use-after-free vulnerability), and seamonkey (F21: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated lightdm (denial of service), python-cryptography (denial of service), and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated cyrus-imapd (Leap42.1, 13.2: two vulnerabilities), ffmpeg (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), GnuPG (13.2, 13.1: two vulnerabilities), libksba (Leap42.1: denial of service), libpng12 (Leap42.1: two vulnerabilities), libpng16 (Leap42.1: denial of service), libsndfile (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), ppp (Leap42.1, 13.2, 13.1: denial of service), and virtualbox (13.1: two vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated kernel 3.8.13 (OL7; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (OL7; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated thunderbird (SL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).

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