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Thursday, October 25th, 2018
| Time |
Event |
| 12:22a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 25, 2018
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 25, 2018 is available. | | 3:06p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (389-ds-base, clamav, firefox-esr, and mosquitto), openSUSE (Chromium and firefox), Oracle (firefox and kernel), Red Hat (chromium-browser, firefox, java-1.6.0-sun, java-1.7.0-oracle, and java-1.8.0-oracle), SUSE (dom4j, exempi, mercurial, ntp, python-cryptography, tiff, tomcat, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (audiofile and firefox). | | 4:05p |
Truta: Farewell, Glenn Randers-Pehrson Cosmin Truta reportsthe death of Glenn Randers-Pehrson. " Glenn is one of the original designers of the PNG format, and a
co-founder of the PNG Development Group, back in the mid-90's. He took
good care of the PNG Specification, as a contributing author for PNG
version 1.0, and as the main editor for all of the subsequent editions
through PNG 1.1 and 1.2, until the current W3C/ISO/IEC standard PNG
Specification, Second Edition. In addition, all of the related
Specifications, i.e., the registered PNG extensions, and the companion
MNG Specification version 1.0 and JNG Specification version 1.0, had
Glenn at the front as the main editor and moderator-in-chief." (Thanks to Paul Wise) | | 5:27p |
[$] Improving the handling of embargoed hardware-security bugs Jiri Kosina kicked off a session on hardware vulnerabilities at the 2018 Kernel Maintainers Summit by noting that there are few complaints about how the kernel community deals with security issues in general. That does not hold for Meltdown and Spectre which, he said, had been "completely mishandled". The subsequent handling of the L1TF vulnerability suggests that some lessons have been learned, but there is still plenty of room for improvement in how hardware vulnerabilities are handled in general. |
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