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Several security vulnerabilities that were discovered in the Linux kernel, affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, have been announced by Canonical.
According to Canonical, an information leak has been discovered in the Linux kernel, that occurred when inotify was used to monitor the /dev... |
14 June 2013
10:40 GMT |
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On May 30, Canonical announced that a couple of vulnerabilities had been found in the Linux kernel packages, affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.
Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities affected the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) OMAP4 operating system: CVE-2013-2... |
30 May 2013
08:42 GMT |
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Canonical published details about OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities in a security notice for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 13.04 operating systems.
According to Canonical, Keystone would allow unintended access over the network.
It was discovered that Keystone would not immediately invalidate toke... |
18 May 2013
04:57 GMT |
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On May 7, Canonical published details about OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities, in a security notice, for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, several security issues have been fixed in OpenJDK 6. For example, a vulnerability in the OpenJDK JRE related to inform... |
9 May 2013
13:01 GMT |
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On May 7, Canonical published in a security notice details about a Mesa vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating systems.
According to Canonical, Mesa could have been made to crash, or to run programs, if it processed specially crafted data.
It was discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled... |
7 May 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel (Quantal HWE), affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, Canonical has unveiled.
According to Canonical, a few issues have been corrected in the Linux kernel.
For example, an information leak has been discovered in t... |
2 May 2013
17:05 GMT |
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On April 23, Canonical published, in a security notice, details about an IcedTea-Web regression for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.
According to Canonical, IcedTea-Web was unable to access some sites, due to a regression introduced in a previous update.
The USN-1804-1 patch fixed vulnerabil... |
24 April 2013
15:21 GMT |
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On April 17, Canonical published details, in a security notice, about an X.Org X server vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, the X server could be made to reveal keystrokes of other users.
It was discovered that the X.Org... |
17 April 2013
19:41 GMT |
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On April 16, in a security notice Canonical published details about a Samba vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.
According to Canonical, Samba would allow unintended write access to files over the network.
It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled CIFS share attributes ... |
17 April 2013
05:53 GMT |
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Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel (Quantal HWE), affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, Canonical has unveiled.
According to Canonical, a few issues have been corrected in the Linux kernel.
For example, a flaw has been discovered with the xen_iret... |
10 April 2013
15:11 GMT |
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On April 8, Canonical announced that several vulnerabilities had been found in the Linux kernel packages, affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. Several Linux kernel vulnerability affected the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) OMAP4 operating system: CVE-2013-0914, ... |
10 April 2013
13:21 GMT |
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A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel, affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, has been announced by Canonical. According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in the kernel. For example, it was discovered that the Linux kernel signal handlers could l... |
9 April 2013
14:11 GMT |
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On April 2, Canonical published in a security notice details about a libxslt vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, applications using libxslt could be made to crash, if they processed a specia... |
2 April 2013
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On March 19, Canonical published in a security notice details about an NSS vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, Perl could have been made to stop responding, if it received specially crafted input. It was... |
20 March 2013
16:51 GMT |
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A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel, affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, has been announced by Canonical.
According to Canonical, a few issues have been corrected in the Linux kernel.
For example, a Xen stack corruption was reported in the Linux Kernel. A... |
20 March 2013
11:40 GMT |
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New vulnerabilities were found in the Linux 3.2 and 3.5 kernels, which power the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating systems, and Canonical just issued patches for them.
The following four Linux kernel vulnerabilities affect Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and Ubuntu... |
19 March 2013
04:15 GMT |
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Precise Puppy 5.5 RC, a distribution built from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04.2, alongside the binary DEB packages, providing full compatibility with Ubuntu and access to the vast Ubuntu package repository, has been released.
Precise Puppy 5.5 RC is the first distribution in the series built on Ubuntu Precise Pangol... |
6 March 2013
14:21 GMT |
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On March 6, Canonical published details about OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities, in a security notice, for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, OpenJDK could be made to crash or run programs as you login if it opened a specially crafted file.
For example, it w... |
6 March 2013
09:34 GMT |
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On February 20, Canonical published in a security notice details about OpenSSL vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, the USN-1732-1 update introduced a regression in OpenSSL.
The fix for CVE-2013-0166 and CVE-2012-2686 introduced a regression causing de... |
28 February 2013
14:44 GMT |
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A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel, affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, has been announced by Canonical.
According to Canonical, the system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
A bound-checking error has been discovered for netlink... |
26 February 2013
16:01 GMT |
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On February 21, in a security notice Canonical published details about OpenJDK vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK. For example, it was discovered that the TLS protocol as u... |
22 February 2013
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On February 15, in a security notice Canonical published details about OpenJDK vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, several security issues have been fixed in OpenJDK. For example, several vulnerabilities have been disco... |
15 February 2013
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Mozillux, a Linux distribution based on the popular Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux operating system, is now at version 13.2.1.Mozillux 13.2.1 aims to promote Mozilla embedded in a desktop software suite that can be used by beginners and intermediate users.The distribution is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with LXDE desktop, ... |
9 February 2013
14:32 GMT |
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On February 1, Canonical has published in a security notice details about a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. The previous kernel update for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (3.2.0-36/3.2.0-36.57) introduced a regression, which made the inotify/fanotify program to stop working. ... |
3 February 2013
10:15 GMT |
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A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel, affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, has been announced by Canonical.
Several security issues have been fixed in the kernel. For example, a flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivilege... |
23 January 2013
03:48 GMT |
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On January 22, Canonical published details about MySQL vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.
MyS... |
22 January 2013
10:57 GMT |
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On January 22, Canonical published, in a security notice, details about an AppArmor update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.
According to Canonical, PHP could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled the openssl_encrypt func... |
22 January 2013
10:23 GMT |
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On December 19, Canonical published, in a security notice, details about an AppArmor update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems.
According to Canonical, a weakness was discovered in the example AppArmor profile for chromium-browser.
Dan Rosenberg discovere... |
20 December 2012
09:36 GMT |
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Steam for Linux Beta may have been launched for everyone, but it's not that easy to get into the application. Here is a complete tutorial on how to install and run Steam for Linux official Beta.
Valve has explained that users will need to meet a few requirements in order to start the application, such as a Stea... |
20 December 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Canonical announced a few hours ago, December 3, in a security notice, that they updated the default web browser in all their supported Ubuntu operating systems to Mozilla Firefox 17.0.1.
Mozilla Firefox 17.0.1 is now available for all supported Ubuntu platforms, including Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Ubuntu 12.... |
3 December 2012
15:08 GMT |
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On November 28, Canonical published details about OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, OpenStack Keystone could have allowed unintended access to files over the network.
It was discovered that Keystone did not properly invalidate EC2... |
29 November 2012
11:32 GMT |
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UberStudent, a Linux distribution for learning, doing, and teaching academic success at the higher education and advanced secondary levels, is now at 2.0.4.
UberStudent 2.0.4 retains a traditional desktop environment and it's based on XFCE. Both XFCE and MATE are boot options, but XFCE is the default option.
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26 November 2012
07:39 GMT |
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In a security notice, Canonical has published details about a Mesa vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.
According to Canonical, Mesa could have been made to crash or run programs, if it processed specially crafted data.
It was discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain ... |
6 November 2012
08:55 GMT |
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On October 22, in a security notice Canonical published details about Ruby 1.9.1 vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Ruby. It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly allowed untainted strings to be modified in protect... |
23 October 2012
14:31 GMT |
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In a security notice, Canonical has published details about an libgssglue vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, privilege escalation could have been done via the GSSAPI_MECH_CONF environment variable, with setuid programs.... |
16 October 2012
12:03 GMT |
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On October 11th, Canonical published in a security notice details about MoinMoin vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, Several security issues were fixed in MoinMoin. It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sani... |
11 October 2012
15:41 GMT |
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On October 10th, in a security notice Canonical published details about a QEMU vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, Bind could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic. It was disc... |
10 October 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Canonical has published in a security notice details about an Emacs vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.According to Canonical, Emacs could be made to run programs, as your login, if it opened a specially crafted file.Hiroshi Oota and Paul Ling discovered that the Emacs ... |
29 September 2012
16:31 GMT |
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In a security notice, Canonical published details about a FreeRADIUS vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 11.04 operating systems. According to Canonical, FreeRADIUS could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic. According to Timo Warns, FreeRAD... |
28 September 2012
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On September 26th, in a security notice Canonical published details about a Transmission vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. According to Canonical, Transmission could be made to expose sensitive information over the network. The web client incorrectly escaped certain strings ... |
27 September 2012
10:24 GMT |
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On September 25th, in a security notice Canonical published details about a few Ruby and RubyGems vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. These are the three vulnerabilities found in the Ruby and RubyGems for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CVE-2011-1005, CVE-2012-2126, and CVE-2012-3430. As... |
26 September 2012
12:01 GMT |
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ArtistX 1.3, a Ubuntu-based distribution that aims to enable artists and creators from a number of fields to work via a live and free environment, was released a few days ago. ArtistX 1.3 is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and contains most of the available free audio, 2D and 3D graphics, and video software for the GNU/Li... |
26 September 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Marco Ghirlanda has announced a couple of days ago, on September 23rd, that the ArtistX 1.3 Linux distribution is available for download.
ArtistX 1.3 is based on the popular Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system and is powered by Linux kernel 3.0.0.
With over 2,500 open source multimedia application... |
24 September 2012
06:41 GMT |
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On September 21st, Canonical has publish in a security notice details about a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. These are the six kernel vulnerabilities found in the kernel packages for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CVE-2012-3412 and CVE-2012-3430.As usual, you can click on eac... |
22 September 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Zentyal 3.0, a small Linux business server that can be configured as a Gateway, Unified Threat Manager (UTM), Infrastructure Manager, Office Server, Unified Communications Server or a combination of them, is now available for download.
Highlights of Zentyal 3.0:
· The distribution is now based on Ubuntu 12.... |
14 September 2012
03:50 GMT |
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AMD released a couple of days ago, on August 15th, version 12.8 of the AMD Catalyst video driver for Linux platforms, brining production support for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. So, as usual, the newly released AMD Catalyst 12.8 (based on the fglrx 8.982 release) graphics driver has no of... |
17 August 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Canonical announced a few hours ago, July 23rd, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is now available, fixing one security vulnerability discovered in the Linux kernel packages.
The CVE-2012-2390 vulnerability is actually an error discover... |
24 July 2012
03:20 GMT |
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After announcing a collaboration with Canonical to sell laptops in 850 retail outlets across India, starting this Saturday, July 21st, Dell comes now with another major announcement related to Project Sputnik. Remember Project Sputnik? Officially announced as an experiment in May this year, Project Sputnik was supp... |
19 July 2012
06:41 GMT |
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The Ubuntu Manual team is proud to announce a new edition of the comprehensive Ubuntu manual, this time for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. Dubbed Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04, the 143 pages long PDF document will definitely help new and existing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) us... |
2 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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TheeMahn proudly announced this past weekend that the Ultimate Edition 3.4 LTS operating system is now available for download on mirrors worldwide.
Ultimate Edition 3.4 is now based on Canonical's Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, which makes it a Long Term Support release.
Packed with a n... |
2 July 2012
02:30 GMT |
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