Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

Time	Event
3:50p	Security updates for Wednesday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (aubio, curl, lib32-curl, lib32-libcurl-compat, lib32-libcurl-gnutls, libcurl-gnutls, libu2f-host, python-django, python2-django, rdesktop, and runc), Debian (flatpak), Fedora (flatpak, pdns-recursor, rdesktop, tomcat, and xerces-c27), Mageia (cinnamon, docker, dovecot, golang, java-1.8.0-openjdk, jruby, libarchive, libgd, libtiff, libvncserver, opencontainers-runc, openssh, python-marshmallow, thunderbird, and transfig), openSUSE (python-slixmpp), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (redhat-virtualization-host), Slackware (lxc), SUSE (curl, firefox, LibVNCServer, nginx, php7, python-numpy, runc, SMS3.2, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (gvfs, python-django, snapd, and webkit2gtk). (Comment on this)
4:23p	[$] io_uring, SCM_RIGHTS, and reference-count cycles The io_uring mechanism that was described here in January has been through a number of revisions since then; those changes have generally been fixing implementation issues rather than changing the user-space API. In particular, this patch set seems to have received more than the usual amount of security-related review, which can only be a good thing. Security concerns became a bit of an obstacle for io_uring, though, when virtual filesystem (VFS) maintainer Al Viro threatened to veto the merging of the whole thing. It turns out that there were some reference-counting issues that required his unique experience to straighten out. (Comment on this)

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