Fedora Weekly News Issue 55
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-07-17
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FC6 test2 freeze slipping by a week
Jeremy Katz (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-July/msg00002.html):
(I sent this to fedora-maintainers last week, but forgot to cc the larger audience)
Due to a desire to integrate the DT_GNU_HASH changes for binutils and glibc (which provide an ~ 50% speedup for dynamic linking) and the necessity of doing a rebuild for these changes, we are going to slip the freeze for FC6 test2 by one week. The new freeze date will be Wednesday, 19 July 2006. This should also allow a few other things that are straggling time to be tested a little bit more in time for the feature freeze at test2.
Packaging Committee Information
Toshio Kuratomi (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ToshioKuratomi) reports in fedora-packaging-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-July/msg00136.html):
I've started a page for packaging committee with the date and time of the meetings and other information. If you want to find out about the packaging committee go ahead and read it. If you're on the Packaging Committee and want to hack it, go ahead. If you don't have permission to edit the page but want something added or modified, send mail to fedora-packaging or hop onto #fedora-packaging on IRC.
How was NECC 2006?
Steve Hargadon (mailto:steve@hargadon.com) reports on fedora-education-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-education-list/2006-July/msg00002.html):
It was great...Except for one or two sessions, our lab area was almost always packed. At one point our email garden tables had lines two or three people back--I think they were actually trying to see over the shoulders of those on the computers, who were following along with the lab talks.
- http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/
- http://flickr.com/search/?q=necc2006+opensourcelab%0D%0Aopensourcelab
SELinux blocks local privilege escalation vulnerability
James Morris (mailto:jmorris@redhat.com) points out in his blog (http://james-morris.livejournal.com/12599.html):
Joshua Brindle has analyzed the recent /proc local privilege escalation vulnerability, CVE-2006-3626, and posted that SELinux targeted policy prevents exploitation. It'd be an interesting and useful exercise to go back through historical vulnerabilities and determine how many of them would be mitigated by SELinux and similar technologies (Exec-shield, PIE etc.). Mark Cox wrote an interesting paper, Risk Report: A year of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, which mentions that SELinux blocked the Lupper worm (also noting that that the policy version shipped by default would not have blocked a modified version of the worm).
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-July/047907.html
- http://www.redhat.com/magazine/017mar06/features/riskreport/
Linux Magazine: AppArmor vs SELinux
Hans-Jörg Ehren (mailto:hjehren@linux-magazine.com), Product Manager of Linux Magazine (http://www.linux-magazine.com/) repots via email:
We at Linux Magazine wanted to inform you that we have posted our article covering "AppArmor vs. SELinux" in our Online Archive. Please feel free to link to it from your site or post the link to related forums and community sites. The article is available as a PDF and can be downloaded and printed for private use without charge.
New Linux Hardware Compatibility List Launches
According to LinuxToday (http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006070800232OSCYHW):
Phoronix has today announced the creation of Phoronix LCH. Phoronix LCH is designed to be a community-driven indexing system for computer hardware under Linux. This system allows you to post Linux information on hardware as well as sharing your own personal experiences when it comes to Linux compatibility.
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-07-10
We have a new effort in place to report The Board news as well as Meeting Minutes from each sub-project for Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format.
Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
During the week of July 10 - July 16, Fedora Project released 07 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 04 Security Advisory.
During the week of July 10 - July 16, Fedora Project released 26 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 05 Security Advisory.
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