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Thursday, January 9th, 2020

    Time Event
    3:46a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 9, 2020
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 9, 2020 is available.
    3:40p
    Firefox 72.0.1 released
    There is another Firefox release out there; this
    advisory     suggests that updating quickly would be a good idea:
    "Incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting
    array elements could lead to a type confusion. We are aware of targeted
    attacks in the wild abusing this flaw.    "
    4:01p
    Maddock: The End of Indie Web Browsers
    Samuel Maddock writes
    that the adoption of the "encrypted media extensions" by the World Wide Web
    Consortium has had just the sort of effect that people were worried about four years ago.
    "No longer is it possible to build your own web browser capable of
    consuming some of the most popular content on the web. Websites like
    Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and others require copyright content protection which
    is only accessible through browser vendors who have license agreements with
    large corporations.    "
    4:10p
    Security updates for Thursday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox), Oracle (kernel), Slackware (firefox and kernel), SUSE (apache2-mod_perl, git, java-1_7_0-ibm, java-1_7_1-ibm, log4j, mariadb, and nodejs8), and Ubuntu (gnutls28, graphicsmagick, and nss).
    5:11p
    [$] Grabbing file descriptors with pidfd_getfd()
    In response to a growing desire for ways to control groups of processes
    from user space, the kernel has added a number of mechanisms that allow one
    process to operate on another. One piece that is currently missing,
    though, is the ability for a process to snatch a copy of an open file
    descriptor from
    another. That gap may soon be filled, though, if the pidfd_getfd()
    system-call patch set     from Sargun Dhillon is merged.
    9:12p
    Stable kernel updates
    Stable kernels 5.4.10, 5.4.9, 4.19.94, and 4.14.163 have been released. PowerPC users
    should update to 5.4.10 to get a missing patch. Other users can stay with
    5.4.9.

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