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Tuesday, June 7th, 2016

    Time Event
    3:38p
    Tuesday's security updates

    Debian has updated spice (two vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated dhcpcd5 (code execution) and nss (cipher-downgrade attacks).

    Fedora has updated glibc (F23: denial of service), nginx (F23: denial of service), and qemu (F22: multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated clamav-database (Leap42.1: database refresh).

    Oracle has updated spice (OL7: two vulnerabilities) and spice-server (OL6: two vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated glibc (RHEL6.5: sends DNS queries to random file descriptors), jenkins (RHOSE3.2: multiple vulnerabilities), spice (RHEL7: two vulnerabilities), and spice-server (RHEL6: two vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated spice (SL7: two vulnerabilities) and squid (SL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated expat (SLE12-SP1: code execution).

    Ubuntu has updated libxml2 (multiple vulnerabilities) and oxide-qt (16.04, 15.10, 14.04: multiple vulnerabilities).

    4:26p
    Firefox 47
    Firefox 47 has been released. This version enables the VP9 video codec for
    users with fast machines, plays embedded YouTube videos with HTML5 video if
    Flash is not installed, and more. There is a blog
    post     about these and other improvements. "Now, we are making it
    even easier to access synced tabs directly in your desktop Firefox
    browser. If you’re logged into your Firefox Account, you will see all open
    tabs from your smartphone or other computers within the sidebar. In the
    sidebar you can also search for specific tabs quickly and easily.    "
    See the release
    notes     for more information.
    10:56p
    [$] Distributors ponder a systemd change
    Linux users tend to pride themselves on their position at the leading edge
    of a fast-moving development community. But, in truth, much of what we do
    is rooted in many decades of Unix tradition, and we tend to get grumpy when
    young developers show up and start changing things around. A recent change of
    default in systemd represents such a change and the kind of response that
    it brings out; as a result, Linux distributors are going to have to make a
    decision on whether they should preserve the way things have always worked
    or make a change that, while potentially disruptive to users, is arguably a
    step toward more predictable, controllable, and secure behavior.

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