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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 21 March 2005. |
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1. Gentoo News |
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Additions to the documentation collection |
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Sven Vermeulen[1], Forum moderator Ioannis Aslanidis[2] and reviewer |
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Hartwig Brandl have collated a guide on how to interpret the error codes |
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of the GRUB bootloader, based on an impressive 16-page-thread[3] in the |
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Gentoo Forums. Other recent additions to the Gentoo documentation include: |
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1. swift@g.o |
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2. deathwing00@g.o |
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3. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-122656.html |
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* The Gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide[4] by Sune Kloppenborg |
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Jeppesen[5] covers spam-fighting technologies and anti-virus protection. |
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* Of particular interest since the release of KDE 3.4 last week will be |
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the KDE Split Ebuilds HOWTO[6] by Gentoo's KDE maintainer Dan Armak[7] |
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* An entirely new UTF-8 Guide[8] has been writte by Thomas Martin[9], |
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with lots of information on the background of Unicode and UTF-8, and |
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practical tips to make it work in Gentoo Linux. |
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4. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml |
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5. jaervosz@g.o |
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6. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml |
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7. danarmak@g.o |
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8. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml |
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9. slarti@g.o |
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Many other parts of the documentation have been revised and enhanced over |
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the past few weeks, check for changes in the Documentation Project's |
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status updates[10] of additions and changes to the growing resource. |
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10. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/index.xml#doc_chap5 |
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2. Heard in the community |
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Web forums |
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Acrobat Reader 7 for Linux released? |
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Among the usual whoopies and yeehas that greet the arrival of software |
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everybody has been eagerly waiting for, the new release of acroread has |
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its difficulties. The thread provides a workaround for using the plugin in |
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Firefox, but doesn't have an answer to the lack of Asian fonts. Yet... |
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Turned out this seems to have been a preliminary release only after all. |
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* acroread 7?[11] |
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11. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-290897.html |
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gentoo-bsd |
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Reasons for Gentoo/FreeBSD |
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Curious about what Portage can offer compared to FreeBSD's native ports |
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system, Gentoo Linux user and GWN translator Matthias F. Brandstetter |
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asked on the gentoo-bsd mailing list: "What's the purpose of |
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Gentoo/FreeBSD, or what should it be?" Gentoo developer Grant Goodyear[12] |
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pointed out that he prefers the simple bash syntax of ebuilds over |
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FreeBSD's (ab)use of make. Other answers pointed to USE flags and |
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Portage's handling of config files: |
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12. g2boojum@g.o |
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* Why to use Gentoo/FreeBSD?[13] |
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13. http://dev.gentoo.org/~citizen428/hypermail/gentoo-bsd/0503/0032.html |
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Note: Until popular mailing list archives like Gmane pick up the |
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gentoo-bsd mailing list, Michael Kohl keeps a regularly updated archive in |
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a temporary home at his developer webspace. |
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gentoo-dev |
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Summary of PPC meeting |
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Lars Weiler[14] summarizes the last PPC team meeting, where many things |
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were discussed: |
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14. pylon@g.o |
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* project management elections |
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* future goals |
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* AltiVec in portage |
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* QEMU ABI wrapper |
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* Kernel issues |
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* LiveCD |
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* ppc64 and ppc merger |
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* Summary of PPC meeting[15] |
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15. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26471 |
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Xen in portage? |
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Mike Frysinger[16] asks if any developers are interested in getting the |
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Xen virtualization system into the Portage tree. |
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16. vapier@g.o |
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* Xen in portage?[17] |
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17. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26438 |
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giflib and ungiflib hell |
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Chris White[18] starts a discussion on the libgif / libungif packages |
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since they provide similar features, but libungif is deprecated. This |
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resolved to the removal of libungif from portage. |
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18. chriswhite@g.o |
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* giflib and libungif hell[19] |
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19. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26367 |
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3. Gentoo International |
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Japan: Open Source Conference 2005 |
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Looking for an impromptu vacation spot to spend the Easter weekend? Tokyo |
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is particularly nice at this time of the year, and it has the annual Open |
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Source Conference[20] on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 March 2005. |
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Presentation tracks will be focussing on fonts and Japanese input methods |
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this year, Ruby and XOOPS, a database seminar and an Openoffice.org corner |
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are among the other highlights of this event which also includes an |
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exhibition space for Japanese open-source projects, to be held at the |
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Japan Electronics College[21] in Okubo, a north-western district of Tokyo. |
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GentooJP will be present on Friday morning from 10:00 to 12:50 with a |
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"Gentoo Linux Installfest", a live demonstration of the 2005.0 release |
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being installed on virgin hardware, which obviously beats cherry-blossom |
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viewing in public appeal -- partly because on that latitude they're not |
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quite in full bloom by then, you'd have to fly down south to Kyushu for |
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that... Seating at the Installfest is limited to 40 people, please |
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register for the Gentoo installation event[22] if you plan on attending |
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(all links in Japanese only). |
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20. http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/ |
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21. http://www.jec.ac.jp |
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22. http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=35 |
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Figure 3.1: GentooJP |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050321_gentoojp.png |
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4. Gentoo in the press |
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Netcraft (14 March 2005) |
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Netcraft Ltd.[23], a well-known Internet services company that, among |
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other things, provides research data and analysis on many aspects of the |
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Internet, recently analyzed the growth of Linux distributions in their web |
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server survey. According to the results[24], Gentoo Linux "continues to |
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roughly double each year, albeit from a low base". In the past six months |
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the number of websites that run on Gentoo Linux has increased by 45.1 |
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percent, to a total of 63,160. |
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23. http://www.netcraft.com |
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http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedora_makes_rapid_progress.html |
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Newsforge (18 March 2005) |
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Tom Chance's account[25] of a Gentoo Linux installation has been published |
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on the Newsforge website. He describes the way Gentoo works, not just in |
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technical terms, but also what's most appealing to him as a Gentoo user: |
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"I appreciate the simple, solid package and configuration management |
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systems that keep out of my way; I appreciate the helpful documentation; I |
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find the user forums indispensable; and I appreciate the community |
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approach enshrined in Gentoo's social contract." |
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25. http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/03/04/2035214.shtml?tid=2 |
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5. Moves, adds, and changes |
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Moves |
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team: |
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* None this week |
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Adds |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team: |
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* None this week |
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Changes |
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux |
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project: |
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* Chris White (ChrisWhite) and Rajiv Manglani (rajiv) have left the |
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Security Project |
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* Mike Frysinger (vapier) has joined the Security Project |
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* Tavis Ormandy (taviso) and Rob Holland (tigger) have been appointed |
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auditors of the Security Project |
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6. Gentoo security |
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Ringtone Tools: Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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The Ringtone Tools utilities contain a buffer overflow vulnerability, |
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potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[26] |
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26. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-18.xml |
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MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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MySQL contains several vulnerabilities potentially leading to the |
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overwriting of local files or to the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[27] |
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27. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-19.xml |
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curl: NTLM response buffer overflow |
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curl is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution |
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of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[28] |
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28. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-20.xml |
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Grip: CDDB response overflow |
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Grip contains a buffer overflow that can be triggered by a large CDDB |
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response, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[29] |
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29. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-21.xml |
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KDE: Local Denial of Service |
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KDE is vulnerable to a local Denial of Service attack. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[30] |
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30. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-22.xml |
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rxvt-unicode: Buffer overflow |
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rxvt-unicode is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the |
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execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[31] |
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31. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-23.xml |
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LTris: Buffer overflow |
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LTris is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution |
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of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[32] |
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32. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-24.xml |
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OpenSLP: Multiple buffer overflows |
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Multiple buffer overflows have been found in OpenSLP, which could lead to |
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the remote execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[33] |
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33. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-25.xml |
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Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow |
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Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be triggered |
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when replying to specially crafted messages. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[34] |
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34. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-26.xml |
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7. Bugzilla |
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Summary |
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* Statistics |
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* Closed bug ranking |
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* New bug rankings |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[35]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 13 March 2005 and 20 March 2005, activity on the |
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site has resulted in: |
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35. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 930 new bugs during this period |
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* 527 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 28 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 8324 currently open bugs: 93 are labeled 'blocker', 233 are labeled |
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'critical', and 604 are labeled 'major'. |
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Closed bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period |
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* Gentoo KDE team[36], with 29 closed bugs[37] |
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* media-video herd[38], with 21 closed bugs[39] |
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* Gentoo Games[40], with 20 closed bugs[41] |
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* Gentoo Security[42], with 19 closed bugs[43] |
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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[44], with 19 closed bugs[45] |
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* Perl Devs @ Gentoo[46], with 18 closed bugs[47] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[48], with 18 closed bugs[49] |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[50], with 18 closed bugs[51] |
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36. kde@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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38. media-video@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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40. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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42. security@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@g.o |
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44. base-system@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@g.o |
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46. perl@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=perl@g.o |
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48. gnome@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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50. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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New bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during |
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this period are: |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[52], with 39 new bugs[53] |
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* App-Backup Herd[54], with 35 new bugs[55] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[56], with 21 new bugs[57] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[58], with 14 new bugs[59] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[60], with 13 new bugs[61] |
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* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[62], with 13 new bugs[63] |
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* Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers[64], with 11 new |
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bugs[65] |
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* Mozilla Gentoo Team[66], with 10 new bugs[67] |
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52. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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54. app-backup@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&assigned_to=app-backup@g.o |
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56. sound@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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58. gnome@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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60. x11@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&assigned_to=x11@g.o |
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62. toolchain@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&assigned_to=toolchain@g.o |
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64. kernel@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&assigned_to=kernel@g.o |
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66. mozilla@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-03-13&chfieldto=2005-03-20&assigned_to=mozilla@g.o |
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