Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

Time	Event
3:30p	[$] The PhotoFlow 0.2.5 release The PhotoFlow image editor is a relative newcomer to the field of free-software photography tools. The project was started in 2014, and some people might consider it an odd choice of undertaking—given that there are, these days, quite a few capable raw-photo editors to choose from. But PhotoFlow does bring something new to the table. Click below (subscribers only) for the full review. (Comment on this)
5:53p	Security advisories for Wednesday Arch Linux has updated bind (denial of service) and firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). CentOS has updated grub2 (C7: code execution). Debian has updated bind9 (denial of service) and cups-filters (command execution). Debian-LTS has updated pygments (shell injection). Fedora has updated kernel (F23; F22: multiple vulnerabilities) and seamonkey (F23; F22: multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated grub2 (OL7: code execution) and kernel (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities). Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), libreoffice (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (SL6; SL5: multiple vulnerabilities). Slackware has updated bind (multiple vulnerabilities), libpng (two vulnerabilities), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated bind9 (denial of service), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), git (code execution), and grub2 (code execution). (Comment on this)
7:56p	[$] Ubuntu Touch, three years later Back in early 2013, your editor dedicated a sacrificial handset to the testing of the then-new Ubuntu Touch distribution. At that time, things were so unbaked that the distribution came with mocked-up data for unready apps; it even came with a set of fake tweets. Nearly three years later, it seemed time to give Ubuntu Touch another try on another sacrificial device. This distribution has certainly made some progress in those years, but, sadly, it still seems far from being a competitive offering in this space. (Comment on this)
9:53p	An authentication bypass issue in GRUB The GRUB bootloader (versions 1.98 to 2.02) has an integer underflow issue which can enable a local attacker to bypass authentication on a locked-down system. "Grub2 is the bootloader used by most Linux systems including some embedded systems. This results in an incalculable number of affected devices." (Comment on this)

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