Showing headlines posted by dave

So, for everything you are looking for, You would need, either a new computer, or VectorLinux/Minimal Mandrake/Suse install, but if you really want W98 too

Nearly a year later, Mandrake appears to be poised to reemerge in much better financial health, but at the time, many thought it might end up being liquidated.

Various RTC drivers had the potential to leak small amounts of kernel memory to userspace through IOCTL's. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0984 to this issue.

CBT Nuggets, Inc. has released training videos for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification on Red Hat Linux products.

New kernels are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1 and -current. The 9.1 and -current kernels have been upgraded to 2.4.24, and a fix has been backported to the 2.4.21 kernels in Slackware 9.0 to fix a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap() call which could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. Sites should upgrade to the 2.4.24 kernel and kernel modules. After installing the new kernel, be sure to run 'lilo'.

LPI has affiliated with Open Source communities in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean and Middle-East to increase professionalism, exposure and participation of Linux by corporate, government and academi

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) ... has announced a new Open Source translation system at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Organizations like the Linux Professional Institute (www.lpi.org) are helping to push vendor-neutral education and certification. for high-tech

Evan Leibovitch, president of the LPI, asked the eight-member panel where the group stands, but no one answered his question and only one person on the panel

In our Mozilla Links issue, as reported by a Mozilla Links subscriber, there was an error in the poll code at the website, which caused that votes for Latin America/Caribbean, USA/Canada and Oceania were all mixed up.

Well-known embedded Linux developer and trainer Phil Wilshire will offer a half-day seminar and several multi-day classes on using embedded Linux in February of 2004, in San Marcos, Calif.

and industry-leading embedded Linux and Linux security solutions. Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the company has branch offices and training centers

The do_mremap() function of the Linux Kernel is used to manage (move, resize) Virtual Memory Areas (VMAs). By exploiting an incorrect bounds check in do_mremap() during the remapping of memory it is possible to create a VMA with the size of 0. In normal operation do_mremap() leaves a memory hole of one page and creates an additional VMA of two pages. In case of exploitation no hole is created but the new VMA has a 0 bytes length. The Linux Kernel's memory management is corrupted from this point and can be abused by local users to gain root privileges.

Updated Ethereal packages that fix two security vulnerabilities are now available.

Welcome to LXer.

A vulnerability was discovered by X-Force Research at ISS in ProFTPD's handling of ASCII translation. An attacker, by downloading a carefully crafted file, can remotely exploit this bug to create a root shell.

Steve Kemp discovered a problem in xsok, a single player strategy game for X11, related to the Sokoban game, which leads a user to execute arbitrary commands under the GID of games.

We are glad to announce that the next Mozilla Links issue (due January 2004) will be available as a subscription in Dutch, joining current English and Polish editions. Expect Japanese and German coming very soon. So now you can subscribe to Mozilla Links and have it delivered every two weeks in your prefered language.

Koki from the japanese site jpbe recently interviewed Michael Phipps the project leader of OpenBeOS. The original interview in japanese can be found here. Read more for the english version of the interview.

The latest project aimed at simplifying the complexity of the Linux world has met an early roadblock - the fractious relationship between the two biggest user interface systems