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LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 24, 2012
A uTouch architecture introduction
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Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich
Highlights from the PostgreSQL 9.2 beta
From the Ubuntu advisory:
Denis Excoffier discovered that the PAM MOTD module in Ubuntu did not correctly handle path permissions when creating user file stamps. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privilieges.
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