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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

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    1:58a
    [$] The Machine: Controlling storage with a filesystem
    Keith Packard is the chief architect for The Machine project at HPE; we covered his talk on this project back in 2015. At the 2017 linux.conf.au Kernel Miniconf, Packard focused on one specific aspect of The Machine's hardware and software configuration: how storage is managed and presented to applications. Like much that is being done with this project, its storage architecture is an interesting combination of new ideas and long-established techniques.
    4:57p
    Security advisories for Tuesday

    Arch Linux has updated python-crypto (code execution) and python2-crypto (code execution).

    CentOS has updated bind (C7; C6; C5: denial of service) and bind97 (C5: denial of service).

    Debian-LTS has updated pdns-recursor (code execution).

    Fedora has updated bind (F24: three denial of service flaws), bind99 (F24: three denial of service flaws), and SimGear (F25: file overwrites).

    Gentoo has updated file (multiple vulnerabilities), libxml2 (multiple vulnerabilities), miniupnpc (denial of service), pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities), vlc (code execution), and xdelta (code execution).

    openSUSE has updated ark (42.2, 42.1; SPH for SLE12: code execution), encfs (42.2, 42.1, 13.2: code execution from 2014), gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad (13.2: code execution), gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base (13.2: code execution), gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), gstreamer-plugins-bad (42.1; 13.2: three vulnerabilities), gstreamer-plugins-base (42.1; 13.2: code execution), gstreamer-plugins-good (42.1; 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), icinga (14.2, 14.1: two vulnerabilities), icoutils (42.2; 42.1; 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), openjpeg2 (42.2: multiple vulnerabilities), pcsc-lite (42.2, 42.1, 13.2: privilege escalation), and python-pycrypto (14.2, 14.1, 13.2: denial of service).

    Oracle has updated bind (OL7; OL6; OL5: denial of service), bind97 (OL5: denial of service), and docker-engine docker-engine-selinux (OL7; OL6: two vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL6.5: code execution).

    Scientific Linux has updated bind (SL7; SL5,6: denial of service) and bind97 (SL5: denial of service).

    9:10p
    An updated FSF high-priority project list
    The Free Software Foundation has reworked its high-priority
    project list
    to reflect its view of computing in 2017. See the
    changelog
    for a list of the changes that were made. Among other
    things, the Gnash
    flash player has fallen off the list. "Smart phones are the most
    widely used form of personal computer today. Thus, the need for a fully
    free phone operating system is crucial to the proliferation of software
    freedom.
    "

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