Fedora Weekly News Issue 16
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Issue Date: 2005-10-03
Welcome to our issue number 16 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 Released
This version (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.0.7-release-notes.html) includes several security and stability fixes, including a fix for Command Line URL Shell Command Injection (http://secunia.com/advisories/16901/). Official RPM packages for Fedora Core 3 (http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=910) and Fedora Core 4 have been released.
RealPlayer 10.0.6 and Helix Player 1.0.6 Security Update
This release (http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/player-announce/2005-September/000030.html) is security update which addresses recently discovered security vulnerabilities (http://service.real.com/help/faq/security/050930_player/EN/) including Error Message Format String Vulnerability (http://secunia.com/advisories/16961/). The vulnerabilities offered the potential for an attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on a user's machine. Official Helix Player 1.0.6 RPM packages for Fedora Core 3 (http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=905) and Fedora Core 4 have been released. RealPlayer 10.0.6 RPM package is available at HelixCommunity Download Site (https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154).
/proc/acpi/sleep obsoleted and removed
Warren Togami reports "Users in the past who have been successfully using /proc/acpi/sleep for S3 suspend, they may be surprised that it is gone in newer FC3/FC4 kernels. It has been obsoleted and removed upstream. These users should try /sys/power/state (http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html) instead."
Fedora based distributions: An overview
Rahul Sundaram reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-September/msg00265.html) "There is a recent effort being made as part of the Fedora marketing team to create a list of Fedora based distributions (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions) which includes the project links, package listing, contact details etc classified into several groups based on their functionality."
Updated Fedora Core 4 ISO for PPC
David Woodhouse (mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org) updated Supported Power PCs (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SupportedPowerPC) Fedora Wiki Page with Updated Fedora Core 4 ISO for PPC. "This is a release made from Fedora Core 4 with the current errata and a few installer fixes backported from rawhide to allow installation on the Pegasos, and fix some bugs with installation on Mac and pSeries hardware." Thomas Chung has tested this release on his PowerBook G4 Titanium (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88062) and posted a few tips for "Getting X to work for FC4 Pegasos on PowerBook G4 Titanium (http://fedoranews.org/tchung/ppc/pegasos/readme.txt)" and a screenshot (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SupportedPowerPC?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=fc4-pegasos.png).
RSBAC(Rule Set Based Access Control) for Fedora
Andrea Pasquinucci reports "I am preparing rpms for Fedora of RSBAC (http://www.rsbac.org/) patched kernels and utilities, plus configuration samples etc. (http://fedora.rsbac.mprivacy-update.de/)." RSBAC is a flexible, powerful and fast (low overhead) open source access control framework for current Linux kernels. Here is the article: RSBAC and Fedora
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of September 26 - October 2, Fedora Project released 23 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 6 Security Advisories.
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