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November 5 | November 10 | S&T 2020 (SQLite & TCL) | Online |
November 6 | January 23 January 25 |
linux.conf.au 2021 | Online |
November 6 | November 16 November 22 |
Guix Days | Online |
November 6 | February 18 February 20 |
DevConf.CZ | Online |
November 10 | December 3 | Live Embedded Event | Online |
November 11 | March 20 March 21 |
LibrePlanet 2021 | Online |
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Date(s) | Event | Location |
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November 5 November 7 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Online |
November 7 November 8 |
OpenFest 2020 | online |
November 7 November 8 |
RustFest Global | Online |
November 10 | S&T 2020 (SQLite & TCL) | Online |
November 12 November 14 |
Linux App Summit | Online |
November 14 November 15 |
Battlemesh v13 | online |
November 16 November 22 |
Guix Days | Online |
November 21 November 22 |
MiniDebConf - Gaming Edition | Online |
November 25 November 27 |
Linux Audio Conference | Online |
November 28 November 29 |
EmacsConf 2020 | Online |
November 28 November 29 |
MiniDebConf Online Brasil 2020 | Online |
December 1 December 3 |
Open Source Firmware Conference | online |
December 3 | Live Embedded Event | Online |
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Security updates
Alert summary October 29, 2020 to November 4, 2020
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
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Arch Linux | ASA-202011-2 | chromium | 2020-11-03 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-202011-1 | firefox | 2020-11-03 | |
Debian | DLA-2430-1 | LTS | blueman | 2020-11-03 |
Debian | DLA-2421-1 | LTS | cimg | 2020-10-30 |
Debian | DLA-2419-1 | LTS | dompurify.js | 2020-10-29 |
Debian | DLA-2426-1 | LTS | junit4 | 2020-11-01 |
Debian | DLA-2420-1 | LTS | kernel | 2020-10-30 |
Debian | DLA-2420-2 | LTS | kernel | 2020-10-31 |
Debian | DLA-2418-1 | LTS | libsndfile | 2020-10-29 |
Debian | DLA-2417-1 | LTS | linux-4.19 | 2020-10-28 |
Debian | DLA-2412-1 | LTS | openjdk-8 | 2020-10-30 |
Debian | DLA-2425-1 | LTS | openldap | 2020-11-01 |
Debian | DSA-4782-1 | stable | openldap | 2020-10-30 |
Debian | DLA-2422-1 | LTS | qtsvg-opensource-src | 2020-10-31 |
Debian | DLA-2427-1 | LTS | spice | 2020-11-01 |
Debian | DLA-2428-1 | LTS | spice-gtk | 2020-11-01 |
Debian | DLA-2424-1 | LTS | tzdata | 2020-10-31 |
Debian | DLA-2423-1 | LTS | wireshark | 2020-10-31 |
Debian | DLA-2429-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2020-11-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-01dc2bc62c | F31 | fastd | 2020-11-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-495c14a23f | F32 | fastd | 2020-11-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-13edfc3215 | F33 | fastd | 2020-11-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1a48fa788b | F33 | firefox | 2020-10-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-febe36c3ac | F31 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a405eea76a | F32 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-421f817e5f | F31 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fdc79d8e5b | F32 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-09e4d062fe | F31 | kernel | 2020-11-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-920a258c79 | F32 | kernel | 2020-11-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-474d747b60 | F33 | kernel | 2020-11-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f29254bd5e | F33 | nss | 2020-11-04 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e33acdea18 | F31 | python2 | 2020-10-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c1e9ae02d2 | F33 | samba | 2020-11-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e45cf8ea43 | F31 | tcpreplay | 2020-10-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0e036c907e | F32 | tcpreplay | 2020-10-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c50d8b980b | F33 | tcpreplay | 2020-10-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-25247f0fe7 | F33 | thunderbird | 2020-11-02 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e3d619cc32 | F32 | xen | 2020-10-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-8afd443d46 | F33 | yubihsm-shell | 2020-10-29 |
Gentoo | 202011-01 | bluez | 2020-11-03 | |
Gentoo | 202011-04 | fossil | 2020-11-03 | |
Gentoo | 202011-03 | kpmcore | 2020-11-03 | |
Gentoo | 202011-05 | libssh | 2020-11-03 | |
Gentoo | 202011-02 | opendmarc | 2020-11-03 | |
Mageia | MGASA-2020-0397 | 7 | tomcat | 2020-10-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1792-1 | 15.1 | apache2 | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1790-1 | 15.1 | binutils | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1804-1 | 15.2 | binutils | 2020-11-01 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1822-1 | 15.1 15.2 | claws-mail | 2020-11-03 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1820-1 | 15.1 15.2 | icinga2 | 2020-11-03 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1778-1 | 15.1 | libvirt | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1777-1 | 15.2 | libvirt | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1812-1 | lout | 2020-11-02 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1813-1 | lout | 2020-11-02 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1772-1 | 15.1 | lout | 2020-10-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1771-1 | 15.2 | lout | 2020-10-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1825-1 | 15.1 | pacemaker | 2020-11-04 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1782-1 | 15.2 | pacemaker | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1810-1 | pagure | 2020-11-01 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1765-1 | 15.1 | pagure | 2020-10-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1767-1 | 15.1 | php7 | 2020-10-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1806-1 | 15.1 | phpMyAdmin | 2020-11-01 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1806-1 | 15.1 | phpMyAdmin | 2020-11-01 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1811-1 | 15.1 | samba | 2020-11-02 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1819-1 | 15.2 | samba | 2020-11-02 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1791-1 | 15.1 | sane-backends | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1798-1 | 15.2 | sane-backends | 2020-11-01 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1814-1 | singularity | 2020-11-02 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1769-1 | 15.1 | singularity | 2020-10-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1770-1 | 15.2 | singularity | 2020-10-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1802-1 | 15.2 | spice | 2020-11-01 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1803-1 | 15.2 | spice-gtk | 2020-11-01 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1766-1 | 15.2 | tensorflow2 | 2020-10-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1785-1 | 15.1 | thunderbird, nspr | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1780-1 | 15.2 | thunderbird, nspr | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1799-1 | 15.2 | tomcat | 2020-11-01 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1787-1 | 15.2 | virt-bootstrap | 2020-10-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1783-1 | 15.2 | xen | 2020-10-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4451-01 | EL8 | GNOME | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4627-01 | EL8 | SDL | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4500-01 | EL8 | bind | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4465-01 | EL8 | binutils | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4481-01 | EL8 | bluez | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4650-01 | EL8 | cloud-init | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4694-01 | EL8 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4542-01 | EL8 | cryptsetup | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4900-01 | EL8.1 | cryptsetup | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4469-01 | EL8 | cups | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4599-01 | EL8 | curl | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4655-01 | EL8 | cyrus-imapd | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4497-01 | EL8 | cyrus-sasl | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4763-01 | EL8 | dovecot | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4806-01 | EL8 | dpdk | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4805-01 | EL8 | edk2 | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4649-01 | EL8 | evolution | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4484-01 | EL8 | expat | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4820-01 | EL8 | file-roller | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4844-01 | EL8 | fontforge | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4799-01 | EL8 | freeradius:3.0 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4647-01 | EL8 | freerdp and vinagre | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4907-01 | EL7 | freetype | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4619-01 | EL8 | frr | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4659-01 | EL8 | gd | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4444-01 | EL8 | glibc | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4436-01 | EL8 | gnome-software and fwupd | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4490-01 | EL8 | gnupg2 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4682-01 | EL8 | grafana | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4751-01 | EL8 | httpd:2.4 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4670-01 | EL8 | idm:DL1 and idm:client | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4431-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4685-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4686-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4609-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4908-01 | EL7 | libX11 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4443-01 | EL8 | libarchive | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4766-01 | EL8 | libexif | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4482-01 | EL8 | libgcrypt | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4568-01 | EL8 | libldb | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4547-01 | EL8 | libpcap | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4445-01 | EL8 | librabbitmq | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4628-01 | EL8 | libreoffice | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4709-01 | EL8 | librsvg2 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4508-01 | EL8 | libsolv | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4545-01 | EL8 | libssh | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4634-01 | EL8 | libtiff | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4629-01 | EL8 | libvpx | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4479-01 | EL8 | libxml2 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4464-01 | EL8 | libxslt | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4667-01 | EL8 | mailman:2.1 | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4846-01 | EL8 | mingw-expat | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4903-01 | EL8.1 | nodejs:12 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4687-01 | EL8 | oddjob | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4827-01 | EL8 | oniguruma | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4483-01 | EL8 | opensc | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4514-01 | EL8 | openssl | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4689-01 | EL8 | openwsman | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4539-01 | EL8 | pcre2 | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4847-01 | EL8 | pki-core:10.6 and pki-deps:10.6 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4643-01 | EL8 | poppler | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4807-01 | EL8 | prometheus-jmx-exporter | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4432-01 | EL8 | python-pip | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4654-01 | EL8 | python27:2.7 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4433-01 | EL8 | python3 | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4641-01 | EL8 | python38:3.8 | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4690-01 | EL8 | qt5-qtbase and qt5-qtwebsockets | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4605-01 | EL8 | resource-agents | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4625-01 | EL8 | spamassassin | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4442-01 | EL8 | sqlite | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4743-01 | EL8 | squid:4 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4712-01 | EL8 | subversion:1.10 | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4638-01 | EL8 | sysstat | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4553-01 | EL8 | systemd | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4697-01 | EL8 | targetcli | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4760-01 | EL8 | tcpdump | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4909-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4913-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4756-01 | EL8 | varnish:6 | 2020-11-04 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4453-01 | EL8 | vim | 2020-11-03 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4676-01 | EL8 | virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel | 2020-11-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3149-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | apache-commons-httpclient | 2020-11-04 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3151-1 | SLE15 | apache-commons-httpclient | 2020-11-04 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3152-1 | SLE15 | apache-commons-httpclient | 2020-11-04 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3132-1 | SLE15 | gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-shell | 2020-11-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14524-1 | SLE11 | graphviz | 2020-10-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3090-1 | SLE12 | graphviz | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3122-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-11-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3122-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-11-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3107-1 | SLE12 | liblouis | 2020-10-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3143-1 | OS7 SLE12 | libvirt | 2020-11-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3095-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | libvirt | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3133-1 | SLE12 | opensc | 2020-11-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3126-1 | OS7 SLE12 | ovmf | 2020-11-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3094-1 | SLE12 | pacemaker | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3089-1 | SLE12 | pacemaker | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3086-1 | SLE12 | pacemaker | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3073-1 | SLE15 | pacemaker | 2020-10-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3080-1 | SLE15 | pacemaker | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3096-1 | SLE12 | python-Jinja2 | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3121-1 | SLE12 SES5 | python | 2020-11-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3115-1 | SLE15 | python | 2020-11-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3147-1 | SLE15 | rmt-server | 2020-11-04 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3083-1 | OS7 SLE12 | samba | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3093-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | samba | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14525-1 | SLE11 | samba | 2020-10-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3082-1 | SLE12 | samba | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3087-1 | SLE15 | samba | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3081-1 | SLE15 | samba | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3092-1 | SLE15 SES6 | samba | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3125-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | sane-backends | 2020-11-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3084-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | spice | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3085-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | spice-gtk | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3091-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird and mozilla-nspr | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3088-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xen | 2020-10-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1396-3 | SLE15 | zstd | 2020-10-29 |
Ubuntu | USN-4616-2 | 14.04 | accountsservice | 2020-11-04 |
Ubuntu | USN-4616-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | accountsservice | 2020-11-03 |
Ubuntu | USN-4605-2 | 20.04 20.10 | blueman | 2020-11-03 |
Ubuntu | USN-4610-1 | 20.04 | fastd | 2020-10-29 |
Ubuntu | USN-4614-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 | gdm3 | 2020-11-03 |
Ubuntu | USN-4609-1 | 16.04 | gosa | 2020-10-28 |
Ubuntu | USN-4615-1 | 16.04 | libytnef | 2020-11-03 |
Ubuntu | USN-4552-3 | 16.04 18.04 | pam-python | 2020-10-28 |
Ubuntu | USN-4613-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | python-cryptography | 2020-11-03 |
Ubuntu | USN-4611-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | samba | 2020-11-02 |
Ubuntu | USN-4617-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 | spice-vdagent | 2020-11-04 |
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