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Thursday, January 28th, 2021

    Time Event
    12:15a
    An unpleasant sudo vulnerability
    It would appear that "sudo" has a buffer-overflow vulnerability that allows
    any local user to gain root privileges, whether or not they are in the
    sudoers file. It has been there since 2011. See this
    advisory     for details, but perhaps run an update first.
    1:50a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 28, 2021
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 28, 2021 is available.
    2:44p
    Security updates for Thursday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, firefox-esr, and slurm-llnl), Fedora (firefox, nss, php-pear, seamonkey, and thunderbird), Gentoo (phpmyadmin and telegram-desktop), openSUSE (chromium and python-autobahn), Oracle (firefox and sudo), Red Hat (firefox), Scientific Linux (firefox), and Ubuntu (ceph, kernel, linux, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, and tcmu).
    4:03p
    [$] Wayland support (and more) for Emacs
    Jeffrey Walsh started off his 2021
    linux.conf.au presentation     with a
    statement that, while 2020 was not the greatest year ever, there were still
    some
    good things that happened; one of those was the Emacs 27.1 release.
    This major update brought a number of welcome new features, but also
    led to yet another discussion on the future of
    Emacs    . With that starting point, Walsh launched into a fast-moving
    look at the history of Emacs, why users still care about it, what changes
    are coming, and (especially) what was involved in moving Emacs away from
    the X window system and making it work with the Wayland compositor.

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