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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

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    1:18a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 22, 2016
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 22, 2016 is available.
    7:17p
    A pile of security updates for Thursday
    Arch Linux has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), irssi (code execution), and tomcat7 (proxy injection).

    CentOS has updated firefox (C5, C6, C7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated wireshark (LTS: dissector vulnerabilities), irssi (denial of service), and openssl (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated drupal7-google_analytics (F23, F24: cross-site scripting), drupal7-panels (F23, F24: multiple vulnerabilities), jasper (F23: multiple code-execution vulnerabilities), mod_cluster (F24: "remote exploits"), nodejs-string-dot-prototype-dot-repeat (F23: "update for security reasons"), php-horde-Horde-Mime-Viewer (F23, F24: cross-site scripting), php-horde-Horde-Text-Filter (F23, F24: cross-site scripting), and xen (F23: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (29 CVEs), curl (code execution), file-roller (file deletion), flash-player-plugin (26 CVEs), icu (code execution), jsch (path traversal vulnerability), libksba (denial of service), nodejs (remote code execution), slock (lock bypass), and tomcat (traffic redirection).

    openSUSE has updated opera (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated firefox (OL5, OL6, OL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated firefox (SL5-7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Slackware has updated irssi (denial of service), pidgin (17 CVE numbers), and firefox (multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated java-1_7_1-ibm (SLES12: three CVEs described as "Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u101 and 8u92 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Deployment"), and java-1_6-0-ibm (SLES11: one unspecified vulnerability).

    Ubuntu has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), gdk-pixbuf (code execution), irssi (denial of service), and thunderbird (code execution).

    Note that there appear to be differences of opinion as to whether the irssi vulnerability can be exploited for code execution.

    8:03p
    Garrett: Microsoft aren't forcing Lenovo to block free operating systems
    Matthew Garrett looks at
    the real problem
    behind the inability of some Lenovo laptops to run
    Linux. "The real problem here is that Intel do very little to ensure
    that free operating systems work well on their consumer hardware - we still
    have no information from Intel on how to configure systems to ensure good
    power management, we have no support for storage devices in "RAID" mode and
    we have no indication that this is going to get better in future. If Intel
    had provided that support, this issue would never have occurred.
    "

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