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Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

    Time Event
    3:56p
    Security updates for Tuesday

    Arch Linux has updated libxml2 (two vulnerabilities) and memcached (three code execution vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated libxml2 (two vulnerabilities) and tar (file overwrite).

    Fedora has updated tor (F24: denial of service).

    Gentoo has updated openvpn (information disclosure) and unzip (multiple vulnerabilities from 2014).

    Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (code execution).

    Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL6.6; RHEL6.4; RHEL6.2: two vulnerabilities), mariadb55-mariadb (RHSCL: multiple vulnerabilities), and mysql55-mysql (RHSCL: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Slackware has updated kernel (local privilege escalation (Dirty COW)), libX11 (multiple vulnerabilities), mariadb (multiple vulnerabilities), and php (multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated php5 (SLEMWS12: multiple vulnerabilities).

    4:00p
    Stable kernel 4.4.30
    Stable kernel 4.4.30 has been released. "This fixes a bug in
    4.4.29 and older kernels by reverting two patches that should not have
    been applied.    "
    6:19p
    Minoca OS goes open source
    Minoca OS has been released
    under the GNU GPLv3. "Minoca OS is a general purpose operating system written completely from the ground up. It’s intended for devices looking to conserve power, memory, and storage. It aims to be lean, maintainable, modular, and compatible with existing software."
    8:35p
    [$] A discussion on stable kernel workflow issues
    The opening session at the 2016 Kernel Summit, led by Jiri Kosina, had to do with the process of creating stable kernel updates. There is, he said, a bit of a disconnect between what the various parties involved want, and that has led to trouble for the consumers of the stable kernel releases.

    Click below (subscribers only) for the first article from LWN's 2016 Kernel Summit coverage

    10:18p
    Project for porting C to Rust gains Mozilla's backing (InfoWorld)
    InfoWorld takes
    a look     at a C-to-Rust translation project called Corrode. "What Corrode does not do (yet) is take constructs specific to C and rewrite them in memory-safe Rust equivalents. In other words, it performs the initial grunt work involved in porting a project from C to Rust, but it leaves the heavier lifting -- for example, using Rust's idioms and language features -- to the developer."

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