Thanksgiving day security updates

[Posted November 26, 2015 by jake]

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it, from all of us here at LWN. Happy November 26 to everyone else :)

Debian has updated dpkg (code execution), nspr (code execution), python-django (information disclosure), and smokeping (code execution).

Debian-LTS has updated eglibc (two vulnerabilities), python-django (information disclosure), and redmine (multiple vulnerabilities).

Fedora has updated abrt (F21: information disclosure), jenkins (F22: three vulnerabilities), jenkins-remoting (F22: three vulnerabilities), and libreport (F21: information disclosure).

openSUSE has updated libpng12 (13.2, 13.1: two vulnerabilities), libpng16 (13.2, 13.1: denial of service), and strongswan (authentication bypass).

Oracle has updated abrt and libreport (OL7: multiple vulnerabilities), glibc (OL7; OL7: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (OL7: multiple vulnerabilities), NetworkManager (OL7: denial of service), sssd (OL7: unspecified), and tigervnc (OL7: two vulnerabilities).

Red Hat has updated git19-git (RHSC2: code execution), java-1.5.0-ibm (RHEL5&6: multiple vulnerabilities), ntp (RHEL6: denial of service), and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

SUSE has updated kernel (SLE11SP3: multiple vulnerabilities).

Ubuntu has updated dpkg (code execution) and openjdk-7 (15.10, 15.04, 14.04: unspecified vulnerability).

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 26, 2015 21:13 UTC (Thu) by perlwolf (guest, #46060) [Link] (11 responses)

Heh, some of us celebrated Thanksgiving more than a month ago (Oct 12 this year).

Happy turkey to you tardy ones south of the border.

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 27, 2015 10:07 UTC (Fri) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link] (10 responses)

It is permitted to be thankful more than once per year.

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 27, 2015 14:37 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (9 responses)

Yeah, but this is a bit late for a harvest festival celebration, isn't it? (Which is what Thanksgiving descends from.) Round here we had those a couple of months ago...

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 27, 2015 18:14 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

The climate in the US is more mild, so Nov 1st is about the time for the first real cold days.

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 27, 2015 18:25 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (7 responses)

> Which is what Thanksgiving descends from

But it is now the "binge before Consumerism Month" holiday.

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 27, 2015 21:30 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (6 responses)

Quite. We now have Black Friday in the UK and I have no *idea* why. It's not as if we have a holiday to go with it, or anything... it's just a race to the bottom by a bunch of shops each of which is forced to discount like hell or everyone else will steal all their customers.

Still, it meant I got a fairly horrible Android tablet for 95% off, which was... probably still overpriced, but I only need it to do one job so £5 was rather good really. Certainly less than I was expecting to pay, even for Android 4.4.

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 27, 2015 22:38 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (5 responses)

It puzzles me when they go on about turkey shortages ... if there's a shortage, it'll be NEXT month. And why turkeys either, they're not traditional at all. Beef or Goose for me!!!

Cheers,
Wol

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 28, 2015 20:41 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (4 responses)

Well, turkeys are at least native to the Americas, so that makes sense for here. I don't believe any of them are native to the British Isles though (maybe geese; certainly not bovines).

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 29, 2015 11:18 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (3 responses)

I suspect geese are native. If cattle aren't, where did they come from? Unless, of course, Britain got cut off from the continent before they could migrate across although that seems a bit odd seeing as many of them are very much cold-adapted.

But both of them have been here since probably before England existed, and the Nottingham Goose Fair has been going since the mid 1200s.

Cheers,
Wol

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 29, 2015 22:07 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

Looking it up, Aurochs, the now-extinct ancestor to the domesticated cow, was native to the British Isles, but all of the domesticated ones originate from the Fertile Crescent. I did not find anything on domesticated geese. What species is it when you order "goose"? For pig, cow, sheep, etc., there is only one species we farm with.

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 29, 2015 23:45 UTC (Sun) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link] (1 responses)

Anser anser, if we are talking about european populations...

Thanksgiving day security updates

Posted Nov 30, 2015 16:18 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Thanks. Looking into this, it seems to be not as definitive as the other animals, but it seems Egypt was the first, which was then crossbred with local populations of geese for the different breeds we have today.