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Friday, May 13th, 2016

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    4:34p
    Friday's security updates

    Arch Linux has updated chromium (multiple vulnerabilities), flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities), lib32-flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities), and libksba (denial of service).

    CentOS has updated thunderbird (C7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated libxstream-java (XML external-entity attack).

    Debian-LTS has updated libgwenhywfar (outdated CA certificates) and libuser (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated glibc (F23: denial of service).

    Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (M5: multiple vulnerabilities) and mercurial (M5: code execution).

    openSUSE has updated libxml2 (Leap 42.1: denial of service) and ntp (Leap 42.1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated kernel (O7: privilege escalation) and thunderbird (O7; O6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated chromium-browser (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities), docker (RHEL7: privilege escalation), flash-plugin (RHEL 5,6: multiple vulnerabilities), and openshift (RHOSE 3.2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated java-1_7_1-ibm (SLE12; SLE11: multiple vulnerabilities), ntp (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (SLE11, SSO1.3, SOSC5, SMP2.1, SM2.1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    10:11p
    Schaller: H264 in Fedora Workstation

    At his blog, Christian Schaller discusses the details of the OpenH264 media codec from Cisco, which is now available in Fedora. In particular, he notes that the codec only handle the H.264 "Baseline" profile. "So as you might guess from the name Baseline, the Baseline profile is pretty much at the bottom of the H264 profile list and thus any file encoded with another profile of H264 will not work with it. The profile you need for most online videos is the High profile. If you encode a file using OpenH264 though it will work with any decoder that can do Baseline or higher, which is basically every one of them." Wim Taymans of GStreamer is looking at improving the codec with Cisco's OpenH264 team.

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