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Friday, December 18th, 2015

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    6:08p
    Security updates for Friday

    Arch Linux has updated python2-pyamf (denial of service).

    Debian has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities, including one from 2013).

    Debian-LTS has updated foomatic-filters (?:) and virtualbox-ose (no longer supported in Debian 6).

    Fedora has updated firefox (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), libldb (F23; F22: remote memory disclosure), libpng10 (F23; F22: code execution), libtalloc (F23; F22: remote memory disclosure), libtdb (F23; F22: remote memory disclosure), libtevent (F23; F22: remote memory disclosure), and samba (F23: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Gentoo has updated dnsmasq (information disclosure) and ipython (?:).

    Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (code execution) and python-pygments (code execution).

    Red Hat has updated chromium-browser (RHEL6: code execution) and openshift (RHOSE2.2: information leak).

    Scientific Linux has updated bind (SL6: denial of service) and firefox (SL5&6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Slackware has updated grub (password bypass) and libpng (read underflow).

    SUSE has updated kernel (SLE12SP1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated linux-lts-wily (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-raspi2 (15.10: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-ti-omap4 (12.04: denial of service), and sosreport (15.10, 15.04, 14.04: two vulnerabilities, including one from 2014).

    10:04p
    Jolla: not dead yet
    The Jolla company blog announces that the
    company has closed a new round of funding and will not be shutting down
    after all. "This investment enables the continuation of Sailfish OS
    development, the community activities and other company operations. It’s
    clear that this recent struggle hit us hard and left some battle wounds but
    most importantly this means that the development and life of Sailfish OS
    will continue strong. This alone is worth a celebration!
    "
    10:09p
    First Plasma Wayland Live Image (KDE.News)
    Over at KDE.News, Jonathan Riddell has announced the availability of the first live image [1.2GB ISO] of the KDE Plasma desktop running atop Wayland.

    "The central component in this is our window manager, KWin, which has moved from drawing borders on the edges of windows to running the full compositor and talking the Wayland protocols which allow applications to draw on screen and be interacted with.

    Users of the image will notice some obvious glitches, it is certainly not ready for everyday use yet, but the advantages of more secure workspaces, easier feature extendibility and graphics free of tearing and gitches will be appreciated by everybody. Work on this has been ongoing since 2011 and is expected to take years rather than months before a completely transparent switch away from X will be possible. Find more about the project on the KWin Wayland wiki pages.
    "

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