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Monday, June 20th, 2016

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    4:14p
    Kernel prepatch 4.7-rc4

    The 4.7-rc4 prepatch is now available for testing. Linus Torvalds said that it is "pretty small" with "nothing particularly worrisome". The development cycle proceeds apace with the usual sorts of changes: "The statistics look very normal: about two thirds drivers, with the rest being half architecture updates and half "misc" (small filesystem updates,. some documentation, and a smattering of patches elsewhere)."

    4:40p
    Security advisories for Monday

    Arch Linux has updated flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities), glibc (denial of service), lib32-flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities), lib32-glibc (denial of service), and wget (code execution).

    Debian has updated libxslt (three vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated firefox-esr (multiple vulnerabilities) and horizon (cross-site scripting).

    Fedora has updated expat (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), GraphicsMagick (F23; F22: multiple vulnerabilities), iperf3 (F23; F22: denial of service), sudo (F22: information leak), and wget (F22: code execution).

    Gentoo has updated dhcpcd (denial of service), ffmpeg (multiple vulnerabilities), flash-player (multiple vulnerabilities), and php (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated Chromium (SPH for SLE12; Leap42.1; 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), flash-player (13.2; 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), and poppler (Leap42.1: code execution).

    Scientific Linux has updated ImageMagick (SL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    9:31p
    [$] Transport-level protocols in user space
    The Linux networking developers have long held a strong opinion about
    user-space protocol implementations: they should be avoided in favor of
    making the in-kernel implementation better. So it might be surprising to
    see a veteran networking developer post a patch set aimed at making
    user-space implementations easier. A look at this patch and its
    motivations shines an interesting light on changes that are taking place in
    the networking world.

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