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Linux News for Nov 25, 2002
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Trustix Secure Linux Advisory: samba (Oct 04, 2004, 02:58)
"A security vulnerability has been located in Samba 2.2.x <=
2.2.11 and Samba 3.0.x <= 3.0.5..."
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Conectiva Linux Advisory: samba (Jul 22, 2004, 20:29)
"Evgeny Demidov noticed that the internal routine used by the
Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) to decode the base64 data
during HTTP basic authentication is subject to a buffer overrun
caused by an invalid base64 character..."
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SuSE Linux Advisory: pine (Sep 11, 2003, 20:29)
"The well known and widely used mail client pine is vulnerable
to a buffer overflow..."
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Community: Protest Launched Against Microsoft in Kerala, India Schools (Nov 25, 2002, 23:30)
Members of FSUG-Kochi have submitted a memorandum to the
Government of Kerala, one of India's states, protesting the use of
Microsoft software in India's IT@SCHOOL project. This memorandum is
linked within.
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NewsForge: Linux Veteran Looks for Ways to Introduce Linux to Congress (Nov 25, 2002, 22:00)
"A retired math professor and veteran Linux user is looking for
help from the community to educate the U.S. Congress about Linux
and win some converts on Capitol Hill..."
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Boston Globe: Free Software vs. Goliaths (Nov 25, 2002, 20:30)
"Still, the money's going to the Free Software Foundation, the
Cambridge nonprofit group that might be termed the Vatican of the
open-source software movement. Moglen's been fighting the
foundation's legal battles for years, free of charge. You'd think
that would be enough of a contribution..."
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Trustix Secure Linux Advisory: samba (Nov 25, 2002, 20:26)
"There was a bug in the length checking for encrypted password
change requests from clients..."
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SuSE, MandrakeSoft Each Announce New CEOs (Nov 25, 2002, 19:00)
Both SuSE Linux and MandrakeSoft have announced new CEOs today.
Find out more about the new head honchos from the press releases
within.
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San Jose Mercury News: Linux Makes Inroads Against Windows PCs (Nov 25, 2002, 18:00)
"Could a wily little penguin disrupt Microsoft's desktop
empire?"
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Manilla Bulletin: Interest on Red Hat Linux Seen Growing Among Local Companies (Nov 25, 2002, 17:00)
"Red Hat Linux, an open source operating system, has the
potential in the local [Philippine] market particularly among large
enterprises..."
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SuSE Linux Advisory: pine (Nov 25, 2002, 16:35)
"While parsing and escaping characters of eMail addresses pine
does not allocate enough memory for storing the escaped mailbox
part of an address. This results in a buffer overflow on the heap
that will make pine crash..."
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Conectiva Linux Advisory: samba (Nov 25, 2002, 16:33)
"Steve Langasek and Eloy Paris discovered a vulnerability in
Samba versions 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 which may allow a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary code in the server context..."
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Richmond Times-Dispatch: 'The Genie is Out of the Bottle' (Nov 25, 2002, 16:00)
"The Richmond company is turning to free open-source
software-development tools to design and test applications that it
builds for clients... In the process, CapTech often saves thousands
in project-development costs..."
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eWeek: Linux 2.6 on Horizon (Nov 25, 2002, 14:30)
"The next major release of the Linux kernel is on track for the
first half of next year, with improvements in its ability to handle
large amounts of memory and throughput..."
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New Zealand Herald: Linux OS Free with Cheap PCs (Nov 25, 2002, 13:00)
"The move comes hot on the heels of Dick Smith's launch of Linux
PCs, which use the Mandrake Linux operating system. Both approaches
cut costs by displacing Microsoft's Windows XP OS with a free Linux
OS..."
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Linux and Main: QtScape Needs Programmers if it is to Survive (Nov 25, 2002, 11:00)
"The project is QtMozilla, formerly known as QtScape. Initially
done as an exercise in porting, it later provided a QT/KDE front
end to Mozilla. But it has gone unmaintained for some time and
absent sustained interest is in danger of being dropped from the
Mozilla CVS tree..."
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PC World: Lindows vs. Windows: Round 3.0 (Nov 25, 2002, 08:00)
"As for the Lindows OS's original claim to fame--its stated goal
of running Windows applications as well as Linux ones--Robertson
says that's no longer part of the strategy..."
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Release Digest: KDE, November 24, 2002 (Nov 25, 2002, 05:00)
This weekend's KDE apps: knoda 0.5.5, Mango 0.21, KDevelop
3.0a2, Thumber 1.1.0, K3b 0.7.5, Lekho 2002.11.17, CalcChecksum
0.3beta3, KnowIt 0.3, Thumber 1.1.1, and CalcChecksum 0.3.
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Release Digest: GNOME, November 24, 2002 (Nov 25, 2002, 05:00)
This weekend's GNOME apps: Straw 0.13.2, gnomemm 1.3.12, acme
1.99.10, gsoftpad-1.2, and gjots 0.5.
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Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter -- Issue #69 (Nov 25, 2002, 03:00)
Community Roundup: This week's summary: Top
Story, It's Christmas at MandrakeStore!; Mandrake in the News,
MozillaQuest & TweakHound.com; MandrakeClub, Club discounts --
Do you need DB2?; Business Case of the Week, StarSoft software
development; This Week's Survey, Have you received your 9.0 Pack?'
more.
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Kernel Cousin Wine #145 by Brian Vincent (Nov 25, 2002, 01:00)
Community Roundup: The latest message traffic
for Wine development.
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