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jeudi 24 mai 2012, 21:39
vulnerabilities RPM 4.10 released
Panu Matilainen announces the release of RPM 4.10.0. Most of the changes targeted robustness and correctness, but a few new features crept in as well, including support for parsing the tilde (~) operator in package version numbers.
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multiple Thursday's security updates
Debian has updated sudo (privilege escalation) and libxml2 (arbitrary code execution). Mandriva has updated ES 5.0 firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated net-snmp (denial of service).
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acirc SSL fix flags forged certificates before they're accepted by browsers (Ars Technica)
Over at Ars Technica, Dan Goodin writes about Trust Assertions for Certificate Keys (TACK), a proposed extension to SSL/TLS designed to discover fake certificates before they are accepted. 'The opt-in system works by allowing SSL sites to sign valid SSL certificates, the...
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service GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation
Matt Godbolt announces GCC explorer, a web-based tool for exploring how code tweaks change the machine code emitted by the compiler. 'Particularly with some of the newer features of C++11 — lambdas, move constructors, threading primitives etc — it’s nice to be able to...
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postgresql [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 24, 2012
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 24, 2012 is available.
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mercredi 23 mai 2012, 20:22
denial Google wins patent case against Oracle
Groklaw has the news: the jury in Oracle v. Google has found that Google did not infringe any of Oracle's patents.
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code Simon Phipps is the new OSI President (The H)
The H covers an announcement by the Open Source Initiative that Simon Phipps is the new president of the organization. 'Phipps has already been spearheading an OSI reform process, working with the rest of the board to open up the organisation. That process has led to the...
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kernel Wednesday's security updates
Mandriva has updated 2011.0: wireshark (denial of service). Oracle has updated postgresql, postgresql84 (OL6; OL5: multiple vulnerabilities), OL5: postgresql (multiple vulnerabilities), OL5: kvm (multiple vulnerabilities), and OL6: bind-dyndb-ldap (denial of service). Red...
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pc LLVM 3.1 released
Version 3.1 of the LLVM compiler suite is out. 'This release represents approximately 6 months of development over LLVM 3.0, delivers a vast range of improvements and new features. Some of the most visible features include greatly expanded C++'11 support in Clang (including...
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geek A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1)
For those interested in complex exploits: the Chromium Blog describes how a sequence of six independent bugs was exploited to execute code within the Chromium browser. 'Even though Chrome’s renderers execute inside a stricter sandbox than the GPU process, there is a...
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mardi 22 mai 2012, 23:10
internet Mageia 2 is out
Mageia 2 has been released. 'Mageia 2 is available as Live CDs, install DVDs and a netinstall CD, and is available in various languages for easy download, from FTP, HTTP, or torrents.' The release notes are here. LWN previewed this release last April.
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tech Stable kernel 2.6.34.12
Paul Gortmaker has released stable kernel 2.6.34.12. If you are running a 2.6.34.x kernel you'll want this release.
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technologie [$] A uTouch architecture introduction
<img src=" width=125 height=93 alt="[uTouch diagram]" border=0 hspace=3 align="right"> As the Linux desktop increases in popularity, the user interface experience has become increasingly important. For example, most laptops today have multitouch capabilities that have yet to...
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news Security advisories for Tuesday
CentOS has updated C5: kvm (multiple vulnerabilities), C5: postgresql (multiple vulnerabilities), C5: postgresql84 (multiple vulnerabilities), C6: postgresql (multiple vulnerabilities), and C6: bind-dyndb-ldap (denial of service). Fedora has updated perl-config-inifiles...
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news pc ownCloud 4 released
Version 4 of the ownCloud 'personal cloud' system is out. 'ownCloud 4 – built through active community support – adds innovative features like file versioning, – which actively saves files, allowing users to “rollback” to previous versions – and a new API —...
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news geeks Announcing printerd
Tim Waugh has announced (on May 10) the existence of the printerd project, meant to be a new print spooling subsystem for Linux. 'It is a polkit-enabled D-Bus system service, written using the GLib object system. Although modeled on concepts from IPP (Internet Printing...
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lundi 21 mai 2012, 23:15
vulnerabilities Stable kernels 3.0.32 and 3.3.7
Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.0.32 and 3.3.7. Both contain lots of important fixes.
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multiple Nmap 6 released
Version 6 of the nmap network scanner is out. 'It includes a more powerful Nmap Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts, better web scanning, full IPv6 support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more.' See the release notes for details.
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acirc Linux kernel 3.2.18 released
Ben Hutchings has released 3.2.18 with plenty of important fixes.
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service Monday's security updates
Debian has updated pidgin-otr (format string vulnerability) and sympa (authorization bypass). Fedora has updated apache-poi (F16; F15: denial of service), rubygen-mail (F16; F15: arbitrary command execution), rubygem-actionmailer (F16; F15: arbitrary command execution),...
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