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Linux Security Summit North America 2018 - CFP

The Linux Security Summit (LSS) will take place August 27-28 in Vancouver, Canada. The call for papers closes June 3. "We're seeking a diverse range of attendees, and welcome participation by people involved in Linux security development, operations, and research. The LSS is a unique global event which provides the opportunity to present and discuss your work or research with key Linux security community members and maintainers. It’s also useful for those who wish to keep up with the latest in Linux security development, and to provide input to the development process."

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2nd Call For Papers - 25th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2018)

Tcl'2018 will take place October 15-19 in Houston, TX. The call for papers closes August 20.

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CFP Deadlines: April 12, 2018 to June 11, 2018

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
April 15	July 7 July 12	Libre Software Meeting	Strasbourg, France
April 15	June 22 June 24	XenProject Developer and Design Summit	Nanjing, China
April 18	May 18 May 19	French Perl Workshop 2018	Paris, France
April 20	May 25 May 27	openSUSE Conference 2018	Prague, Czech Republic
April 20	June 8 June 10	South East Linux Fest	Charlotte, NC, USA
April 29	August 29 August 31	Open Source Summit	Vancouver, Canada
April 29	July 6 July 11	GUADEC	Almería, Spain
April 30	August 7 August 11	JuliaCon 2018	London, UK
May 4	August 4 August 5	DevConf India	Bangalore, India
May 15	October 29 October 30	OpenWrt Summit	Lisbon, Portugal
May 16	October 18 October 19	Osmocom Conference 2018	Berlin, Germany
May 20	August 11 August 12	GNOME.Asia Summit	Taipei, Taiwan
May 20	July 11 July 13	Netdev 0x12	Montréal, Québec, Canada
May 20	July 23 July 29	EuroPython 2018	Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
May 23	August 25 August 26	Free and Open Source Software Conference	Sankt Augustin, Germany
May 24	October 29 October 31	LISA18	Nashville, TN, USA
May 30	July 18 July 19	RISC-V Workshop in Chennai	Chennai, India
May 31	August 28 September 1	EuroSciPy 2018	Trento, Italy
June 1	April 1 April 4	‹Programming› 2019	Genova, Italy
June 1	November 12	RabbitMQ Summit 2018	London, UK
June 3	August 27 August 28	Linux Security Summit	Vancouver, Canada
June 3	October 24 October 26	PyCon.DE 2018	Karlsruhe, Germany
June 7	August 25 August 26	Linux Developers Conference Brazil	Campinas, Brazil
June 9	June 11 June 12	Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group	Brno, Czech Republic

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LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China Schedule Announced

LF Asia, LLC has announced the conference schedule for LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China (LC3), taking place June 25-27 in Beijing. "At LC3, attendees can expect to collaborate, share information and learn about the most important open source technologies and topics today, including cloud native, serverless, microservices, IoT, AI, networking, Linux and more; in addition to gaining insight into how to navigate and lead in the open source community."

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Events: April 12, 2018 to June 11, 2018

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
April 9 April 13	OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2018	Boulder, CO, USA
April 9 April 12	‹Programming› 2018	Nice, France
April 11 April 14	MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018	Curitiba, Brazil
April 14 April 15	Prague Makerfaire	Prague, Czech Republic
April 14 April 15	curl up 2018	Stockholm, Sweden
April 16 April 17	LLVM European Developers Meeting	Bristol, UK
April 16 April 18	Power Management and Scheduling Summit	Pisa, Italy
April 23	foss-north 2018	Gothenburg, Sweden
April 23 April 25	Storage, Filesystem and Memory-Management Summit	Park City, UT, USA
April 26 April 27	FLOSSUK – Spring Conference	Edinburgh, Scotland
April 27 April 28	Grazer Linuxtage 2018	Graz, Austria
April 28 April 29	LinuxFest Northwest	Bellingham, WA, USA
May 2 May 4	KubeCon+CloudNativeCon	Copenhagen, Denmark
May 3 May 5	Linuxwochen Wien 2018	Vienna, Austria
May 4 May 5	PyDays Vienna	Vienna, Austria
May 7 May 13	Wireless-Meshup (Wireless Battle Mesh)	Berlin, Germany
May 7 May 10	8th RISC-V Workshop	Barcelona, Spain
May 9 May 13	PyCon	Cleveland, OH, USA
May 16 May 20	Mini-DebConf	Hamburg, Germany
May 17 May 18	Devopsdays Silicon Valley	Mountain View, CA, USA
May 18 May 19	French Perl Workshop 2018	Paris, France
May 21 May 22	OpenMP UK Users' Conference	Oxford, UK
May 21 May 24	OpenStack Summit	Vancouver, Canada
May 22 May 23	Infoshare 2018	Gdańsk, Poland
May 23 May 27	DjangoCon Europe 2018	Heidelberg, Germany
May 25 May 27	openSUSE Conference 2018	Prague, Czech Republic
May 29 June 1	PGCon 2018	Ottawa, Canada
May 31 June 1	Netconf	Boston, MA, USA
June 1 June 2	PyCon Taiwan	Taipei, Taiwan
June 4 June 6	PyCon Israel 2018	Israel
June 5 June 7	SambaXP 2018 Conference	Göttingen, Germany
June 7 June 10	Linux Audio Conference	Berlin, Germany
June 8 June 9	Texas Linux Fest	Austin, TX, USA
June 8 June 10	South East Linux Fest	Charlotte, NC, USA

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Alert summary April 5, 2018 to April 11, 2018

Dist.	ID	Release	Package	Date
Arch Linux	ASA-201804-1		drupal	2018-04-04
Arch Linux	ASA-201804-2		openssl	2018-04-09
Arch Linux	ASA-201804-3		zziplib	2018-04-09
CentOS	CESA-2018:0649	C6	libvorbis	2018-04-09
CentOS	CESA-2018:0647	C6	thunderbird	2018-04-09
CentOS	CESA-2018:0648	C7	thunderbird	2018-04-10
Debian	DLA-1342-1	LTS	ldap-account-manager	2018-04-09
Debian	DLA-1343-1	LTS	ming	2018-04-09
Debian	DSA-4166-1	stable	openjdk-7	2018-04-04
Debian	DSA-4169-1	stable	pcs	2018-04-11
Debian	DSA-4170-1	stable	pjproject	2018-04-09
Debian	DLA-1283-2	LTS	python-crypto	2018-04-09
Debian	DLA-1340-1	LTS	sam2p	2018-04-07
Debian	DLA-1341-1	LTS	sdl-image1.2	2018-04-07
Debian	DSA-4167-1	stable	sharutils	2018-04-05
Debian	DSA-4168-1	oldstable	squirrelmail	2018-04-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-d5aa3e1d90	F26	bchunk	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-1217b02061	F27	bchunk	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-1b4f1158e2	F26	compat-openssl10	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-9490b422e7	F27	compat-openssl10	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-d8269e4262	F26	drupal7	2018-04-10
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-143886fdbd	F27	drupal7	2018-04-10
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-c442aad4dc	F27	exempi	2018-04-04
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-a61baabbac	F26	firefox	2018-04-05
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-331af74020	F26	gd	2018-04-04
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-375e3244b6	F27	httpd	2018-04-05
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-223d8fc52a	F27	java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-f61d8bdd42	F27	koji	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-e06468b832	F27	libid3tag	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-02e23192f5	F27	libidn	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-6f2df5ab6c	F26	librelp	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-2f9d3604d6	F27	librelp	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-0a95bff197	F27	mod_http2	2018-04-05
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-e672eaf4df	F26	nodejs	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-c71dd2e199	F26	php	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-12f92ff831	F27	php	2018-04-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-aa8de9d66a	F26	python-pip	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-a042f795b2	F27	python-pip	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-aa8de9d66a	F26	python3	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-a042f795b2	F27	python3	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-aa8de9d66a	F26	python3-docs	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-a042f795b2	F27	python3-docs	2018-04-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-a233dae4ab	F26	tomcat	2018-04-04
Fedora	FEDORA-2018-50f0da5d38	F27	tomcat	2018-04-04
Gentoo	201804-10		ZendFramework	2018-04-09
Gentoo	201804-04		curl	2018-04-08
Gentoo	201804-05		dhcp	2018-04-08
Gentoo	201804-07		libvirt	2018-04-08
Gentoo	201804-06		mailx	2018-04-08
Gentoo	201804-03		poppler	2018-04-08
Gentoo	201804-08		qemu	2018-04-08
Gentoo	201804-09		spice-vdagent	2018-04-08
Mageia	MGASA-2018-0193	6	389-ds-base	2018-04-07
Mageia	MGASA-2018-0194	6	aubio	2018-04-07
Mageia	MGASA-2018-0197	6	cfitsio	2018-04-07
Mageia	MGASA-2018-0198	5, 6	libvncserver	2018-04-08
Mageia	MGASA-2018-0196	6	nmap	2018-04-07
Mageia	MGASA-2018-0195	6	ntp	2018-04-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0894-1	42.3	GraphicsMagick	2018-04-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0893-1	42.3	ImageMagick	2018-04-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0882-1	42.3	docker-distribution	2018-04-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0914-1	42.3	git	2018-04-11
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0883-1	42.3	graphite2	2018-04-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0891-1	42.3	libidn	2018-04-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0917-1	42.3	mercurial	2018-04-11
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0890-1	42.3	postgresql94	2018-04-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0892-1	42.3	spice-gtk	2018-04-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2018:0899-1	42.3	wireshark	2018-04-08
Oracle	ELSA-2018-4061	OL7	kubernetes	2018-04-06
Oracle	ELSA-2018-0649	OL6	libvorbis	2018-04-05
Oracle	ELSA-2018-0647	OL6	thunderbird	2018-04-09
Oracle	ELSA-2018-0648	OL7	thunderbird	2018-04-05
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1075-01	EL7	ansible	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1098-01	EL6	firefox	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1099-01	EL7	firefox	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0849-01	EL7	gcc	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0805-01	EL7	glibc	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0878-01	EL7	golang	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1062-01	EL7	kernel	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0654-01	EL7	kernel-alt	2018-04-09
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0676-01	EL7	kernel-rt	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0666-01	EL7	krb5	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1072-01	EL7	kubernetes	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1055-01	EL7	libvncserver	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0649-01	EL6	libvorbis	2018-04-05
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1058-01	EL7	libvorbis	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0855-01	EL7	ntp	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0980-01	EL7	openssh	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0998-01	EL7	openssl	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1060-01	EL7	pcs	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0913-01	EL7	policycoreutils	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0646-01	EL7	python-paramiko	2018-04-05
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0816-01	EL7	qemu-kvm	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:1104-01	EL7	qemu-kvm-rhev	2018-04-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0647-01	EL6	thunderbird	2018-04-05
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0648-01	EL7	thunderbird	2018-04-05
Red Hat	RHSA-2018:0842-01	EL7	xdg-user-dirs	2018-04-10
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2018:0649-1	SL6	libvorbis	2018-04-05
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2018:0647-1	SL6	thunderbird	2018-04-06
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2018:0648-1	SL7	thunderbird	2018-04-06
Slackware	SSA:2018-096-01		patch	2018-04-06
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2018:0879-1	OS6 SLE12	apache2	2018-04-05
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2018:0901-1	SLE12	apache2	2018-04-09
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2018:0920-1	SLE12	libvirt	2018-04-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2018:0902-1	OS6 SLE12	openssl	2018-04-09
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2018:0906-1	SLE12	openssl	2018-04-10
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2018:0905-1	SLE11	openssl1	2018-04-10
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2018:0873-1	OS6	python-paramiko	2018-04-04
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2018:0909-1	SLE12	xen	2018-04-10
Ubuntu	USN-3596-2	14.04 16.04	firefox	2018-04-06
Ubuntu	USN-3620-1	14.04	kernel	2018-04-04
Ubuntu	USN-3618-1	14.04 16.04 17.10	libvncserver	2018-04-04
Ubuntu	USN-3619-1	16.04	linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon	2018-04-04
Ubuntu	USN-3620-2	12.04	linux-lts-trusty	2018-04-04
Ubuntu	USN-3619-2	14.04	linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws	2018-04-05
Ubuntu	USN-3617-3	17.10	linux-raspi2	2018-04-04
Ubuntu	USN-3624-1	14.04 16.04 17.10	patch	2018-04-10
Ubuntu	USN-3616-2	12.04	python-crypto	2018-04-09
Ubuntu	USN-3621-1	14.04 16.04 17.10	ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3	2018-04-05
Ubuntu	USN-3623-1	14.04 16.04 17.10	ubuntu-release-upgrader	2018-04-09
Ubuntu	USN-3622-1	14.04 16.04 17.10	wayland	2018-04-09

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