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Linux Weekly News

Stable kernels 4.11.7 and 4.9.34

The 4.11.7 and 4.9.34 stable kernel updates have been released. Among other things, they contain the fixes for the recently disclosed "Stack Clash" vulnerability. The 4.4.74, and 3.18.58 updates are still in the review process but should be out in the near future.

corbet

[$] ProofMode: a camera app for verifiable photography

The default apps on a mobile platform like Android are familiar targets for replacement, especially for developers concerned about security. But while messaging and voice apps (which can be replaced by Signal and Ostel, for instance) may be the best known examples, the non-profit Guardian Project has taken up the cause of improving the security features of t […]

corbet

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (linux-hardened), CentOS (sudo), Debian (apache2, c-ares, flatpak, graphite2, and openvpn), Fedora (glibc and thunderbird), Gentoo (graphite2, jbig2dec, libksba, nettle, urbanterror, and vim), openSUSE (go and unrar), Oracle (sudo), SUSE (tomcat), and Ubuntu (openvpn).

jake

digiKam 5.6.0 is released

The digiKam Team has released version 5.6.0 of the digiKam Software Collection for photo management. "With this version the HTML gallery and the video slideshow tools are back, database shrinking (e.g. purging stale thumbnails) is also supported on MySQL, grouping items feature has been improved, the support for custom sidecars type-mime have been added […]

ris

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (lxterminal, lxterminal-gtk3, openvpn, and pcmanfm), CentOS (thunderbird), Debian (jython, spip, tomcat7, and tomcat8), openSUSE (openvpn), Oracle (thunderbird), Slackware (openvpn), SUSE (openvpn), and Ubuntu (kernel, linux-lts-trusty, nss, and valgrind).

jake

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 22, 2017

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 22, 2017 is available.

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[$] Specifying the kernel ABI

At Open Source Summit Japan (OSSJ)—OSS is the new name for LinuxCon, ContainerCon, and CloudOpen—Sasha Levin gave a talk on the kernel's application binary interface (ABI). There is an effort to create a kernel ABI specification that has its genesis in a discussion about fuzzers at the 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference. Since that time, some progress on it […]

jake

Vranken: The OpenVPN post-audit bug bonanza

Guido Vranken describes his efforts to fuzz-test OpenVPN and the bug reports that resulted. "Most of this issues were found through fuzzing. I hate admitting it, but my chops in the arcane art of reviewing code manually, acquired through grueling practice, are dwarfed by the fuzzer in one fell swoop; the mortal’s mind can only retain and comprehend so m […]

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[$] Memory use in CPython and MicroPython

At PyCon 2017, Kavya Joshi looked at some of the differences between the Python reference implementation (known as "CPython") and that of MicroPython. In particular, she described the differences in memory use and handling between the two. Those differences are part of what allows MicroPython to run on the severely memory-constrained microcontrolle […]

jake

A Stack Clash disclosure post-mortem

For those who are curious about how the community deals with a serious vulnerability, Solar Designer's description of the embargo process around the "Stack Clash" issue (and his unhappiness with it) is worth a read. "Qualys first informed the distros list about this upcoming set of issues on May 3. This initial notification didn't sa […]

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SANS Internet Storm Center

Fake DDoS Extortions Continue. Please Forward Us Any Threats You Have Received., (Fri, Jun 23rd) Ιουνίου 23, 2017

We do continue to receive reports about DDoS extortion e-mail. These e-mails are essentially spammed to the owners of domains based on whois records. They claim to originate from well-known hacker groups like Anonymous who have been known to launch DDoS attacks in the past. These e-mails essentially use the notoriety of the groups name to make the threat sou […]

ISC Stormcast For Friday, June 23rd 2017 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5556, (Fri, Jun 23rd) Ιουνίου 23, 2017

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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, June 22nd 2017 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5554, (Thu, Jun 22nd) Ιουνίου 22, 2017

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Obfuscating without XOR, (Thu, Jun 22nd) Ιουνίου 22, 2017

Malicious files are generated and spread over the wild Internet daily (read: hourly). The goal of the attackers is to use files that are:

It has been a month and a bit how is your new patching program holding up?, (Wed, Jun 21st) Ιουνίου 21, 2017

Last months entertainment for many of us was of course the wannacray ms17-010 update. For some of you it was a relaxing time just like any other month. Unfortunately for the rest of us it was a rather busy period trying to patch systems that in some cases had not been patched in months or even years. Others discovered that whilst security teams have been say […]

ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, June 21st 2017 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5552, (Wed, Jun 21st) Ιουνίου 21, 2017

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Windows Error Reporting: DFIR Benefits and Privacy Concerns, (Tue, Jun 20th) Ιουνίου 20, 2017

This please let us know.

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, June 20th 2017 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5550, (Tue, Jun 20th) Ιουνίου 20, 2017

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As Your Admin Walks Out the Door .., (Mon, Jun 19th) Ιουνίου 20, 2017

One of our readers (thanks Gebhard) mailed us a link to an article on what the press is apparently now calling a Revenge Wipe - a system administrator who has left the organization, and as a last hurrah, deletes or locks out various system or infrastructure components.

Sysinternals 6.03 is out. Bug fixes only, no new features https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals/2017/06/17/sysinternals-update-sysmon-v6-03/, (Mon, Jun 19th) Ιουνίου 19, 2017

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