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Ethereal 0.10.0-0.10.2 IGAP Overflow Remote Root Exploit

  • K-OTIK (Posted by dave on Mar 28, 2004 8:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Here is the exploit code for a remote root vulnerability in ethereal.

Sunbird Project Section Added to Mozilla Calendar Website

These pages cover the Sunbird project and its goals, where one can download Sunbird and what its known issues are and how to build it.

Gentoo alert: UUDeview MIME Buffer Overflow vulnerability

  • Mailing list (Posted by dave on Mar 28, 2004 5:58 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security; Groups: Gentoo
A specially-crafted MIME file (.mim, .uue, .uu, .b64, .bhx, .hqx, and .xxe extensions) may cause UUDeview to crash or execute arbitrary code.

Linux: Reiser4 FileSystem Stabilizing

Those following the evolution of the Reiser4 filesystem will be interested in learning that it has become "fairly stable for average users", so much so that Namesys is soon planning to push patches to 2.6 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton. Once the two remaining known bugs are fixed, the warnings against using reiser4 on a production system will likely be removed.

NUST Pakistan, COMTEC Japan jointly release open source next generation multi agent system

  • Pakistan Link (Posted by dave on Mar 28, 2004 5:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
RAWALPINDI : Prof Dr. Arshad Ali, Director General NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) announced the beta release of the next generation Multi Agent System as public domain software, "SAGE" (Scalable fault Tolerant Agent Grooming Environment) is a software agent development environment, which is a cutting edge technology today, far richer than the object oriented software development approach.

Lotus Founder Mitch Kapor: "It's Just a Matter of Time" Before Open Source Prevails

  • LinuxWorld.com (Posted by dave on Mar 28, 2004 5:22 AM EDT)
  • Groups: SCO; Story Type: News Story
Lawsuits such as those from The SCO Group are symptomatic of open source's success, says Mitch Kapor: "You know you're (really successful) when the big-time parasites show up." He was speaking to members of the Python community at the PyCon conference in Washington, DC.

Live Knoppix Installer Would Enable Recipe Distro's

While the folks at http://thelinuxbox.org were ironing out the logistical details of running their home desktop kit PC contest. They happened upon a Linux installer model http://thelinuxbox.org/Net_installer.html that could also help the GNU/Linux community generally. And is a logical extension of the joint 2004 predictions of Brian Proffit and Eric S. Raymond on the Linux Show http://www.thelinuxshow.com/archives/2004/tls-01-06-2004.mp3 (minute 31:50-35:00) that the various core distributions would all move to a dynamically upgradeable unified repositories model.

Linux needs more great weeks

As their nemesis, Microsoft, was sanctioned by the European Commission for anticompetitive trespasses, computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. gave Linux a new vote of confidence, and the largest Linux distributor posted strong financial results. Yet uncertainty surrounds the community-built software's ability to chip away at Windows' dominance, particularly on desktop computers.

Lindows Judge Offers Microsoft a Deal on Windows

Lindows asked the court to stop Microsoft from routing it out of foreign markets, and the judge, bowing to Lindows' wishes to hear its plea on an expedited basis, listen to what everyone had to say on Wednesday. He then suggested that Microsoft refrain from harrying Lindows in Europe and Canada and in exchange he'll let Microsoft appeal his decision that as part of this whole affair a jury has to decide whether Windows is a generic word or not.

Technoinfosys to Introduce Linux SBS 2004

  • ChannelTimes.com (Posted by dave on Mar 27, 2004 10:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Mumbai based Technoinfosys, has introduced a new opensource software - Technoinfosys Linux SBS 2004 - and is looking to expand its channel across the country to market the product.

Microsoft Disowns "EC-Designed" Windows

"Windows is a state-of-the-art operating system designed for state-of-the-art computers," he said, not the pitiful dumbed-down thing the EC wants to foist on the poor unsuspecting European consumer - and calling it Windows amounts to compulsory licensing of the Windows trademark, a defense that Microsoft is going to use when it appeals the EC's negative antitrust decision to the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.

Embedded Linux implementation targets custom SoCs

LynuxWorks will demonstrate a version of its BlueCat Linux running on LSI Logic's RapidChip "Platform ASIC" at the Embedded Systems Conference next week in San Francisco. The combination targets communications equipment makers developing custom system-on-chips (SoCs) based on ARM processors running Linux in conjunction with LSI's off-the-shelf cores.

Microsoft displays fear, uncertainty, and doubt toward OpenOffice.org

I came across this Microsoft OpenOffice 1.1 Competitive Guide through a post on the TTLUG mailing list, and decided to answer it fully in a FDLed response because it will save quite a few people from typing everything.

Open-Source Advocate Distributes Book Online for Free

  • eWEEK Linux (Posted by dave on Mar 27, 2004 4:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Lawrence Lessig, an influential scholar who advocates greater consumer rights to use copyright works, as well as Linux and the open-source movement, is making his latest book available for free on the Internet.

Sun Appoints Accel ICIM As Premier Linux System Provider

The Chennai-based Accel ICIM, one of the leading providers of total IT solutions, has been appointed by Sun Microsystems as its premier Linux System provider to roll out its Linux initiative for India. As part of the deal, the company will set up two Linux Competency centres in Chennai and Delhi with a total investment of Rs 2 crore. The centres will have a total of 100 Linux professionals and the company is targeting a revenue of Rs 40 crore from its Linux line of business.

HP sues Gateway over patents

  • InfoWorld: Platforms (Posted by dave on Mar 26, 2004 6:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: HP
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has filed a lawsuit against Gateway Inc. that accuses HP's rival of violating six technology patents relating to desktop, notebook and server computer systems.

Red Hat executives still in touch with the Linux desktop

Red Hat's desktop plans are in full swing, according to execs at today's London leg of its World Tour. Despite dropping further development of Red Hat 9 from 30 April and focussing on the server market, Red Hat hasn't taken its eye off the desktop game. Currently, the nearest thing to a Linux desktop from Red Hat is the workstation version - Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS. But Deb Woods, VP of Product Management said that Red Hat developers are 'scurrying' around pretty quickly on that, but that the company won't make announcements on a delivery until shortly before its release.

Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r3

I am preparing the third revision of the current stable Debian distribution (woody) and will infrequently send reports so people can actually comment on it and intervene whenever this is required.

Red Hat Now a $126m-a-Year Company

Red Hat just posted the best quarter in its history though its CEO Matthew Szulik says privately that "It's not enough."

What's Hot in Remote Systems Monitoring (NewsFactor)

  • Yahoo! News - Linux/Open Source (Posted by dave on Mar 26, 2004 4:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
As Linux gains ground as a legitimate alternative to traditional enterprise-heavy operating environments, it is inevitable that ancillary products also start gaining acceptance. One such product is Nagios, a Linux-based remote systems monitoring tool.

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