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Friday, September 6th, 2019

    Time Event
    1:26p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (exim4 and firefox-esr), Fedora (lxc, lxcfs, pdfresurrect, python3-lxc, rdesktop, and seamonkey), Oracle (kernel), and SUSE (nginx, python-Werkzeug, SUSE Manager Client Tools, and util-linux and shadow).
    1:46p
    [$] How Chrome OS works upstream
    Google has a long and interesting history contributing to the upstream
    Linux kernel. With Chrome OS, Google has tried to learn from some of
    the mistakes of its past and is now working with the upstream Linux kernel as
    much as it can. In a session at the 2019
    Open Source Summit North America     , Google software engineer Doug
    Anderson detailed how and why Chrome OS developers work upstream. It
    is an effort intended to help the Linux community as well as Google.
    2:17p
    Stable kernels for everybody
    The
    5.2.12,
    4.19.70,
    4.14.142,
    4.9.191, and
    4.4.191
    stable kernels have been released with another set of important fixes.
    Milliseconds thereafter,
    5.2.13 and
    4.19.71
    were released to fix a regression with the elantech mouse driver.
    2:29p
    Critical vulnerability in Exim
    Anybody running the Exim mail system will want to apply the updates that
    are being released today; there is a remote code-execution vulnerability in
    its TLS-handling code with a known proof-of-concept exploit. As the advisory
    says: "If your Exim server accepts TLS connections, it is
    vulnerable    ".

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