News Category: Enterprise
The H | August 14, 2009
Open Source Programming Languages Surveyed
Article Source The HAugust 14, 2009, 1:48 am
Black Duck has analysed its database of 200,000 open source programs to see which programming languages are most popular. The database is used by the company as part of their compliance and license management services. The analysis of all open...
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Debian GNU/Linux | August 13, 2009
Debian Security Advisory 1862 linux-2.6 - privilege escalation
Article Source Debian Security AdvisoriesAugust 13, 2009, 5:00 pm
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problem:
CVE-2009-2692
Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes...
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Red Hat | August 13, 2009
Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1209-1: Moderate: curl security update
Article Source Red Hat Security Updates
Updated curl packages that fix security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP...
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LWN | August 13, 2009
Another Kernel NULL Pointer Vulnerability
Article Source LWNAugust 13, 2009, 12:41 pm
In the Linux kernel, each socket has an associated struct of operations called proto_ops which contain pointers to functions implementing various features, such as accept, bind, shutdown, and so on.
If an operation on a particular socket is...
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insideHPC | August 13, 2009
Penguin Launches on Demand HPC Utility
Article Source insideHPCAugust 13, 2009, 7:23 am
This week Penguin Computing announced the launch of a new service called “Penguin On Demand” — POD for short. The service is targeted specifically at the needs of scientific computing users, and Penguin is positioning it against the most...
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The H | August 13, 2009
FSF Launch GNU Generation
Article Source The HAugust 13, 2009, 2:36 am
The Free Software Foundation has started a community for young people interested in contributing to free software. The GNU Generation community is aimed at people between the ages of 13 and 18 and encourages them to participate in the development of...
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Debian GNU/Linux | August 12, 2009
Debian Security Advisory 1861 libxml - several vulnerabilities
Article Source Debian Security AdvisoriesAugust 12, 2009, 5:00 pm
Rauli Kaksonen, Tero Rontti and Jukka Taimisto discovered several vulnerabilities in libxml, a library for parsing and handling XML data files, which can lead to denial of service conditions or possibly arbitrary code...
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Ubuntu | August 12, 2009
Ubuntu Security Notice 816-1: fetchmail vulnerability
Article Source Ubuntu Security NoticesAugust 12, 2009, 3:56 pm
Moxie Marlinspike discovered that fetchmail did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the certificate name. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information...
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Red Hat | August 12, 2009
Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1199-1: Critical: java-1.5.0-sun security update
Article Source Red Hat Security Updates
Updated java-1.5.0-sun packages that correct several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and 5 Supplementary.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
The Sun...
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Red Hat | August 12, 2009
Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1198-1: Critical: java-1.6.0-ibm security update
Article Source Red Hat Security Updates
Updated java-1.6.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and 5 Supplementary.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
The IBM 1.6....
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