It’s at LWN.net. Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been found in the UW-IMAP
package by the authors and independant groups. These vulnerabilities
can be exploited only once a user has authenticated which limits the
extent of the vulnerability to a remote shell with that user’s
permissions. On systems where the user already has a shell, nothing
new will be provided to that user, unless the user has only local shell
access. On systems where the email accounts do not provide shell
access, however, the problem is much greater.

From the EETimes: “Intent on extending the network processor’s role,
Brecis Communications (San Jose, Calif.) will describe at the Embedded
Processor Forum on Tuesday (June 12) a multiservice processor
architecture meant to handle converged voice and data transfers at the
very edge of the network.” The architecture is supported on Linux and BSD.

LinuxPlanet has more on the Garner Group study that questions Linux’s percentage of the Web server market.

LinuxPower.org has an interview with Jim Gettys, who started the original X Window System which
today forms the basis of the Linux and Unix GUI. “Today Jim is still active in the community working at Compaq
making Linux and X run on the iPaq. He was also elected to the GNOME Foundation board by GNOME hackers.”

From O’Reilly’s p.r. department: “In a recent O’Reilly Network interview, Jonathan Corbet provided
interesting insights into Linux device drivers. He spoke about the
current state of Linux device drivers, where they might be going in the
future, and the process the Linux community embraces to develop these
very important tools. The story’s at Oreillynet.com.

http://www.thelinuxsociety.org. On Tuesday, John van Vlaanderen will speak about one
of the most popular storage technologies
of today and its applicability under GNU/Linux.

What: The Linux Society General Meeting
When: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 at 6:15 pm (sharp!) to
8:30 p.m.
Where: The NYPC Office
Room 1560, floor 15
The New Yorker Hotel,
481 Eighth Avenue (at 34th Street)
Manhattan, New York City
Speaker: John van Vlaanderen
Topic: Introduction to RAID
(Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives)

The Linux Society (TM), at http://www.thelinuxsociety.org,
is a SIG of NYPC (http://www.nypc.org)
meeting monthly in mid-town Manhattan.
We hold a General Meeting each month on a topic of
interest to new or experienced LINUX users.
We also have a Linux Study Group in progress,
meeting two evenings each month
All our meetings are free and open to all.
For more information please check our web site
or send an email to: info@thelinuxsociety.org.

LinuxPlanet has a column about bullies. “I agree … that we have spent far too much effort worrying about what
Microsoft is going to do next and not enough on improving the operating system we have. A few weeks ago, I
wrote that we should not be holding ourselves up to their standards anyway. Right now, if GNU/Linux tries to
take Windows on head-to-head, customer-to-customer, it will surely lose.”

KDE.org has another article in the series, this one featuring Frerich Raabe, a student from Germany who pitches in where he’s needed on KDE development.

Advogato.org has an article “intended to invite discussion on core financial consequences of such choices in a personal and practical environment” as it compares the GPL and closed source.

Slashdot readers discuss a report that file trading service Freenet has hired its first employee.