Weekly roundup 2017 – week 42

Cauldron

The biggest update this week has been Plasma 5.11.1 and also the addition of the Julia numerical oriented programming language, the full import should be ready soon.

Big changes in Cauldron this week include:

  • lame 3.100
  • ardour 5.12.0
  • cmake 3.10.0 RC3
  • kernel 4.13.8
  • openfoam 5.0
  • virtualbox 5.1.30
  • cups 2.2.5

Mageia 6

Lots of updates to both Mageia 6 and 5 this week, most notably a fix for the wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities.

  • kernel 4.9.56-1 & matching headers and modules – multiple CVE fixes
  • db48 4.8.30-21.1 & db53 5.3.28-10.1 – CVE fix
  • php-memchache 3.0.8-10 – fixes mga#21833
  • hostapd 2.6-1.1 & wpa_supplicant 2.6-1.1 – multiple CVE fixes
  • poppler 0.52.0-3.3 – multiple CVE fixes
  • flash-player-plugin 27.0.0.170-1 – CVE fix
  • webmin 1.860-1 – CVE fix
  • wireshark 2.2.10-1 – multiple CVE fixes
  • libxfont 1.5.2-1.1 & libxfont2 2.0.1-4.1 – CVE fixes
  • ruby 2.2.8-1 & ruby-json 1.8.3-3.1 – multiple CVE fixes
  • openvpn 2.4.4-1 – CVE fix

Mageia 5

  • db48 4.8.30-18.1 & db53 5.3.28-4.1 – CVE fix
  • hostapd 2.6-1 & wpa_supplicant 2.6-1 – multiple CVE fixes
  • poppler 0.26.5-2.5 – multiple CVE fixes
  • flash-player-plugin 27.0.0.170-1 – CVE fix
  • webmin 1.860-1 – CVE fix
  • wireshark 2.0.16-1 – CVE fix
  • libxfont 1.5.1-1.1 – CVE fixes
  • ruby 2.0.0.p648-1.5 & ruby-json 1.8.1-3.1 – multiple CVE fixes
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4 Responses to Weekly roundup 2017 – week 42

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  3. Keith says:

    It makes me wonder why you upgraded Mageia 5 to wpa_supplicant 2.6 instead of patching 2.3. 2.6 could come later, when people upgrade to Mageia 6+ after Mageia 5 reaches EOL.

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