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Corsaire discovered that a number of HTTP user agents contained a flaw in how they handle cookies. This flaw could allow an attacker to avoid the path restrictions specified by a cookie's originator.

A vulnerability in gdk-pixbuf versions before 0.20 exists that could allow a malicious BMP file to crash the Evolution mail client. The updated packages have been patched to use gdk-pixbuf 0.22.0's BMP- handling code.

Supporters of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) may want to mark the last Saturday of August on their calendar. The Software Freedom Day (SFD) initiative is set to kick off it annual program on August 28, 2004. Led by Matt Oquist, the event aims to raise awareness of FOSS by widely publicizing the existence of open source software, and demonstrate the high quality of the products.

The first installment of Chris DiBona's new monthly column for the LJ Web site. First up, taking on the spam war from another angle.

Last week one of my colleagues said, "The technology of Linux seems to be doing a better job of converging, while the 'support orgs' around it are acting more and more like the Unix fragmentation of old." I agree. Too many Linux, open source, and free software advocacy groups seem to act as if they are alone in the universe, or waste time arguing with competing advocates, instead of cooperating with others to achieve their goals.

Updated kdelibs packages that fix a flaw in cookie path handling are now available.

Updated sysstat packages that fix various bugs and a minor security issue are now available.

Updated gdk-pixbuf packages that fix a denial of service vulnerability that could affect applications such as Evolution are now available.

In this tutorial you will learn how to install and manage the apcupsd daemon to control your computer in the event of a power outage.

My first impression when sitting down in front of the LinuxCertified LC2430 laptop for the first time was, "Wow, look at the size of that screen!" After a few weeks of testing, I found the LC2430 comes up big in just about every respect.

If you've been following along with our LDAP series, then you should already understand the motivations for moving to LDAP, and you should already have an OpenLDAP server up and running (covered in Part I). This time, we'll discuss the LDAP data ...

The record-breaking accomplishment is the end result of an international Altix beta program originally targeted to achieve just half the scalability of today's 256-processor milestone. With a commitment to continually support the market growth and scalability of Linux, SGI Altix systems are eclipsing the capabilities of competing systems from HP, IBM, and Sun while maintaining leadership performance on industry-standard benchmarks and customer applications.

"After the revelation last week that Microsoft seems to be playing a role in funneling cash to SCO to attack Linux, it should be obvious to even the most casual observer that Microsoft will do anything to try to halt Linux."

Red Hat, Inc. today announced a seven-city international tour to meet, educate, and present to customers and users around the world. The tour, sponsored by IBM and HP, will spotlight the worldwide momentum surrounding Linux and open source software. The tour stops in Tokyo, Brisbane, Sydney, Munich, London, Boston and Toronto.

These new Linux-powered thin clients are available immediately at prices beginning at $399, more than $100 below previous Linux-powered thin client appliances from Neoware.

SCO management had a problem. Their quarterly financial report was going to show only twenty thousand dollars in income for their SCOSource licensing program. And so, in an announcement timed to distract people from the bad financial report, SCO announced two new lawsuits and license purchases from Computer Associates, Leggett and Platt, and EV1 Servers.

A buffer overflow in python 2.2's getaddrinfo() function was discovered by Sebastian Schmidt.

Developer of 'Nature's Linux' Operating System and Datacenter Management Solution to Work With OSDL in Advancing Linux in Japanese Markets

Sebastian Schmidt discovered a buffer overflow bug in Python's getaddrinfo function, which could allow an IPv6 address, supplied by a remote attacker via DNS, to overwrite memory on the stack.

Microsoft has been mailing free copies of its pricey Office productivity software to government employees, but CNET News.com has learned that at least two federal agencies are warning recipients to return the gifts or risk violating federal ethics policies.