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Monday, July 18th, 2016

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    4:24p
    Security advisories for Monday

    Arch Linux has updated flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities), gimp (use-after-free), and lib32-flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated libgd2 (multiple vulnerabilities) and pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated binutils (multiple vulnerabilities), phpmyadmin (multiple vulnerabilities), and ruby-eventmachine (denial of service).

    Fedora has updated gimp (F22: use-after-free), httpd (F23: authentication bypass), openjpeg2 (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), perl (F22: code execution), python (F23: denial of service), python3 (F23: denial of service), samba (F23: crypto downgrade), and sudo (F23; F22: race condition).

    Gentoo has updated cacti (multiple vulnerabilities), chromium (multiple vulnerabilities), cups (code execution), and gd (multiple vulnerabilities).

    10:49p
    How (and why) FreeDOS keeps DOS alive (ComputerWorld)
    ComputerWorld talks
    with Jim Hall
    , a contributor to FreeDOS. "FreeDOS (it was originally dubbed ‘PD-DOS’ for ‘Public Domain DOS’, but the name was changed to reflect that it’s actually released under the GNU General Public License) dates back to June 1994, meaning it is just over 22 years old — a formidable lifespan compared to many open source projects.

    “And if you consider the DOS platform, MS-DOS 1.0 dates back to 1981, ‘DOS’ as an operating system has been around for 35 years! That’s not too shabby,” Hall said. (Version 1.0 of MS-DOS — then marketed by IBM as PC DOS — was released in August 1981.)
    " (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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