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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020

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    2:44p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by openSUSE (libetpan, libqt4, lilypond, otrs, and perl-DBI), Red Hat (kernel-rt), Slackware (seamonkey), SUSE (grafana, libmspack, openldap2, ovmf, pdns, rubygem-actionpack-5_1, and samba), and Ubuntu (debian-lan-config, ldm, libdbi-perl, and netty-3.9).
    3:53p
    [$] Removing run-time disabling for SELinux in Fedora
    Disabling SELinux
    is, perhaps sadly in some ways, a time-honored tradition
    for users of Fedora, RHEL, and other distributions that feature the
    security mechanism. Over the years, SELinux has gotten easier to tolerate
    due to the hard work of its developers and the distributions, but there are
    still third-party packages that recommend or require disabling SELinux in
    order to function. Up until fairly recently, the kernel has supported
    disabling SELinux at run time, but that mechanism has been deprecated—in
    part due to another kernel security feature. Now Fedora is planning
    to eliminate the ability to disable SELinux at run time in Fedora 34, which sparked
    some discussion in its devel mailing list.
    7:24p
    Six stable kernels
    Stable kernels 5.8.11, 5.4.67, 4.19.147, 4.14.199, 4.9.237, and 4.4.237 have been released with important
    fixes. Users should upgrade.
    10:17p
    [$] OpenPGP in Thunderbird
    It is a pretty rare event to see a nearly 21-year-old bug be addressed—many
    projects are nowhere near that old for one thing—but that is just what has
    occurred for the Mozilla Thunderbird email
    application. An enhancement
    request
    filed at the end of 1999 asked for a plugin to support email encryption, but it has mostly
    languished since. The Enigmail plugin did come
    along to fill the gap by providing OpenPGP support using GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG), but was
    never part of Thunderbird.
    As part of Thunderbird 78,
    though, OpenPGP is now fully supported within the mail user agent
    (MUA).

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