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Monday, March 15th, 2021

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    4:06p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (ca-certificates, flatpak, golang-1.7, golang-1.8, mupdf, pygments, and tiff), Fedora (containerd, golang-github-containerd-cri, mingw-gdk-pixbuf, mingw-glib2, mingw-jasper, mingw-python-jinja2, mingw-python-pillow, mingw-python3, python-django, python-pillow, and python2-pillow), Mageia (git, mediainfo, netty, python-django, and quartz), openSUSE (crmsh, git, glib2, kernel-firmware, openldap2, stunnel, and wpa_supplicant), Oracle (qemu), Red Hat (openvswitch2.11, openvswitch2.13, pki-core, rh-nodejs10-nodejs, rh-nodejs12-nodejs, rh-nodejs14-nodejs, and wpa_supplicant), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (apache2, crmsh, glib2, s390-tools, and slurm_20_11 and pdsh), and Ubuntu (python2.7, python3.7, python3.8).
    5:38p
    [$] Unprivileged chroot()
    It is probably fair to say that most Linux developers never end up using chroot()
    in an application. This system call puts the calling process into a new
    view of the filesystem, with the passed-in directory as the root
    directory. It can be used to isolate a process from the bulk of the
    filesystem, though its security benefits are somewhat limited. Calling
    chroot() is a privileged operation but, if Mickaël Salaün has his
    way with this patch
    set    , that will not be true for much longer, in some situations at
    least.
    8:34p
    The linux.dev mailing-list service launches
    There is a new mailing-list server running under the auspices of kernel.org that is meant, over time, to address the problems that have been plaguing vger.kernel.org in recent times.

    The infrastructure behind lists.linux.dev supports multiple domains, so all mailing lists hosted on vger.kernel.org will be carefully migrated to the same platform while preserving current addresses, subscribers, and list ids. The only thing that will noticeably change is the procedure to subscribe and unsubscribe from individual lists.

    Among other things, the new server prioritizes delivery to the lore.kernel.org archive, which should minimize the problems seen recently with lost messages.

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