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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

    Time Event
    5:17p
    Wednesday's security updates

    Arch Linux has updated webkit2gtk (multiple vulnerabilities).

    CentOS has updated qemu-kvm (C7: denial of service).

    Debian-LTS has updated icoutils (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated icoutils (F25; F24: three vulnerabilities), mingw-libgsf (F25: denial of service), and php-PHPMailer (F24: three vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated bind (42.2, 42.1; 13.2: three denial of service flaws), libgit2 (13.2: two vulnerabilities), openjpeg2 (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), pdns (42.2, 42.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), qemu (42.2: multiple vulnerabilities), and squid (42.2: three vulnerabilities, one from 2014).

    Oracle has updated kernel (OL7: three vulnerabilities) and qemu-kvm (OL7: denial of service).

    Red Hat has updated docker (RHEL7: privilege escalation), docker-latest (RHEL7: privilege escalation), kernel (RHEL7: three vulnerabilities), kernel-rt (RHEL7; RHEMRG2.5: three vulnerabilities), qemu-kvm (RHEL7: denial of service), and runc (RHEL7: privilege escalation).

    Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL7: three vulnerabilities) and qemu-kvm (SL7: denial of service).

    SUSE has updated kernel (SLE12-SP2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 and nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 (denial of service).

    9:06p
    [$] Designing for failure
    Nobody starts a free-software project hoping that it will fail, so it is a
    rare project indeed that plans for its eventual demise. But not all
    projects succeed, and a project that doesn't plan for failure risks is doing
    its users harm. Dan Callahan joined Mozilla to work on the Persona
    authentication project, and he was there for its recent shutdown. At the 2017
    linux.conf.au in Hobart, Tasmania, he used his keynote slot to talk about
    the lessons that have been learned about designing a project for failure.

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