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Wednesday, July 20th, 2016

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    4:42p
    Security updates for Wednesday

    Debian has updated apache2 (HTTP redirect).

    Debian-LTS has updated apache2 (HTTP redirect).

    Fedora has updated ecryptfs-utils (F24: two vulnerabilities), kernel (F24; F23: multiple vulnerabilities), php-doctrine-orm (F24; F23: privilege escalation), and spice (F24: two vulnerabilities).

    Gentoo has updated ansible (code execution), arpwatch (privilege escalation from 2012), bugzilla (multiple vulnerabilities from 2014), commons-beanutils (code execution from 2014), dropbear (information disclosure), exim (code execution from 2014), libbsd (denial of service), ntp (many vulnerabilities), and varnish (access control bypass).

    openSUSE has updated ImageMagick (Leap42.1: many vulnerabilities), nodejs (Leap42.1, 13.2: buffer overflow), and samba (13.2: crypto downgrade).

    Red Hat has updated java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHEL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (SLE12-SP1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated python-django (16.04: cross-site scripting).

    6:01p
    Smedberg: Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox
    Benjamin Smedberg writes
    that the Firefox browser will soon start taking a more active approach to
    the elimination of Flash content. "Starting in August, Firefox will
    block certain Flash content that is not essential to the user experience,
    while continuing to support legacy Flash content. These and future changes
    will bring Firefox users enhanced security, improved battery life, faster
    page load, and better browser responsiveness.    "
    6:24p
    An honorary degree for Alan Cox
    Congratulations are due to Alan Cox, who was awarded
    an honorary degree     by Swansea University for his work with Linux.
    "Alan started working on Version 0. There were bugs and problems he
    could correct. He put Linux on a machine in the Swansea University computer
    network, which revealed many problems in networking which he sorted out;
    later he rewrote the networking software. Alan brought to Linux software
    engineering discipline: Linux software releases that were tested, corrected
    and above all stable. On graduating, Alan worked at Swansea University, set
    up the UK Linux server and distributed thousands of systems.    "

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