From Canada Newswire: Alta Terra Ventures Corp. (CDNX: ATT), an
aggressively growing full-service Linux provider, announced today that it has
signed a letter of intent to purchase Univolve Corporation, a private Alberta-
based software company with a wide range of proprietary technology based on
the Linux platform.
Univolve’s major thrust is their breakthrough text-prediction software,
which the company has copyrighted, and which was developed by John Darragh,
who is the co-author of two books on the subject.

Posted at Net-security.org: “I believe there is a vulnerability in InoculateIT for
Linux, and probably other Unix versions of InoculateIT,
which allows local non-root users to delete any file on
the system, and under some circumstances to overwrite any
file on the system, next time the ‘update_signature’ is
run by root. If the recommendations in the documentation
are followed, this will happen every day at 1am.”

ZDNet has a story about Hewlett-Packard official and Open Source advocate Bruce Perens saying he’s bullish on Linux on the desktop, even though companies may currently be skittish about financing Linux desktop projects.

Lavtech.com corp. writes, “The new version 3.1.14 of mnoGoSearch free Open Source search engine software is available from mnoGoSearch website at
http://www.mnogosearch.org. With the new version the 3.1.x branch is declared stable and it includes various enhancements and fixes, ChangeLog is here.”

Shuji Sado writes: “5/28 0:00 JST,
VA Linux Japan started
“Slashdot Japan”. It is one part of OSDN’s internationalization,
and new Slashdot challenge.”

PCWorld: “In 1999, Napster started changing the way millions get music, and at times last year more Internet users
searched for “MP3” than “sex,” according to Searchterms.com. “When sex moved back to number one and
MP3 went down again, I said OK, there’s hope for mankind,” Brandenburg jokes.”

Australian IT: “A draft report released this week to the
Internet Engineering Task Force, which sets
the standards for the internet, proposes an
interplanetary “internet” linked by planets,
satellites, asteroids and spacecraft.”

LinuxSecurity: “This week, our readers should pay particular attention to “DoE: First Responder’s Manual,” “Two Open Source Security Code
Scanners,” and “SMTP over an SSH Tunnel.” Also in the news, the saga surrounding Max Butler continues. An updated
Wired story appears in the General section of this newsletter.”

“In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still
need fixing to lock against format changes during a read/write. Poll creating
and starting a buffer as write does and also mmap during write, write during
an mmap.”

Linux 2.4.5-ac2
From: Alan Cox 
To: editors@newsforge.com
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:33:24 +0100 (BST)


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/

                 Intermediate diffs are available from
                         http://www.bzimage.org

In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still 
need fixing to lock against format changes during a read/write. Poll creating 
and starting a buffer as write does and also mmap during write, write during
an mmap.

2.4.5-ac2
o        Restore lock_kernel on umount                   (Al Viro)
         | Should cure Reiserfs crash in 2.4.5

o        Fix additional scsi_ioctl leak                  (John Martin)
o        Clean up scsi_ioctl error handling              (me)
o        Configure.help typo fixes                       (Nerijus Baliunas)
o        Fix hgafb problems with logos                   (Ferenc Bakonyi)
o        Fix lock problems in the rio driver             (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Make new cmpci SMP safe                                 (Carlos E Gorges)
o        Fix missing restore flags in soundmodem                 (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Set max sectors in ps2esdi                      (Paul Gortmaker)
o        Fix interrupt restore problems in mixcom        (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Fix alpha compile on dp264/generic              (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Fix irda irport locking restores                (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Fix failed kmalloc handling in hisax            (Kai Germaschewski)
o        Add missing memory barrier in qlogicisp                 (?)
o        Fix missing restore_flags in eata_dma           (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Fix procfs locking in irttp                     (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Winbond updates                                         (Manfred Spraul)
o        Stop network eating PF_MEMALLOC ram             (Manfred Spraul)
o        Drop fs/buffer.c low mem flush changes          (me)
o        Drop changes to mm/highmem.c                    (me)
         | I don't think the Linus one is quite right but its easier
         | for everyone to be working off one base

o        Revert GFP_FAIL and some other alloc bits       (me)
o        Hopefully fix initrd problem                    (me)
o        Fix kmalloc check in ide-tape                   (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Fix irda irtty locking                          (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Fix missing irq restore in qla1280              (Rasmus Andersen)
o        Fix proc/pid/mem cross exec behaviour           (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix direct user space derefs in eicon           (me)
         | From Stanford checker

o        Fix direct user space derefs in ipddp           (me)
         | From Stanford checker

o        Fix direct user space derefs in ixj             (me)
         | From Stanford checker

o        Fix direct user space derefs in decnet          (me)
         | From Stanford checke

Australian IT: “Financial hotshot Peter Chung just wanted to
brag to his old buddies on Wall Street.

He may have moved to Korea, but he was still
a “stud” and “king of his domain”.

But when Chung detailed his sexual exploits in an explicit email, his employers at
ultra-conservative international finance house the Carlyle Group were not amused.

While the Washington DC-based group has refused to comment on the matter,
business journal Industry Standard reports that Chung resigned after being told to
jump or be pushed.”