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This week, advisories were released for the Linux kernel, lftp, ethereal, screen, BIND, libnids, mpg321, nd, jabber, zebra, fsp, and vbox3. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital EnGarde Secure Linux, Fedora, Immunix, Mandrake, Openwall, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Trustix, and Turbolinux.

New kernels are available for Slackware 8.1 containing a backported fix from a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap() call which could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. This fix was previously issued for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current (SSA:2004-006-01).

Over the coming months, the majority of the Mozilla codebase will be relicensed under an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. The change will

By Jan Stafford, Site Editor. If you think Mozilla is a simple little Web browser, think again. "It's as complex and flexible underneath

By Michael S. Mimoso, News Editor. Red Hat Inc. released an update to Ethereal that repairs two buffer overflow vulnerabilities found

browser going. Why wait? No matter how you cut it, Linux at home meant an anorak in the wardrobe. But now there's Knoppix. The promise

As open source grows, the need for support grows, and this new need has led to the development of a new support option: third-party vendors who manage or patch

The project combines open source and shared source development based on an interesting marriage of GPL/LGPL borrowed from the xbox-linux port with software

Debian has issued updated packages for vbox3. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

What motivated me to write this response, however, were six simple words included in his recent article on ZDNet: Free software does not mean "gratis".

Red Flag Linux Software Co. Ltd.'s plans to expand its business beyond China have hit a setback with the company's plans to release

IBM and SuSE Linux AG are hoping to make more cash registers ring this year, and on Thursday will announce a new SuSE Linux-based point-of-sale solution that

LynuxWorks(TM) today announced that its BlueCat(R) Linux(R) operating system is on-board Protocom's PR818, the world's first single chip MPEG-4 audio video (A/V

Freemont, California embedded security company Team F1 announced this week immediate availability of it's V-IP Secure VPN client for embedded Linux devices. Commercial VPN for IPV4, IPV6 comes

Roku has released a software development kit (SDK) for its embedded Linux-based HD1000 high definition digital media player, and will give away a giant LCD TV Roku Announces Availability of Wo

TORONTO, Jan. 8 — Real World Linux Inc. has launched the Real World Linux Biz Portal of specific interest to management and technology professionals. Developer's

Taiwanese hardware maker Elitegroup Computer Systems Co. Ltd. is shipping 300,000 low-cost laptops to the U.S. bundled with Lindows.com Inc.'s operating system, the software provider said Thursday.

A flaw in bounds checking in mremap() in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.23 and previous was discovered by Paul Starzetz. This flaw may be used to allow a local attacker to obtain root privilege.

Big companies are warming up to open-source database software, according to a new study. The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly

Several Mozilla Foundation employees were interviewed on Monday's edition of Computer Outlook , a Las Vegas talk radio show broadcast on the local KLAV 1230am