Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: April 5th, 2004Gentoo Linux Project seeking additional kernel developers Gentoo Linux is currently seeking some additional kernel developers, primarily for the x86, amd64, ppc, and ppc64 architectures. Applicants should have a fair amount of experience with the kernel, specifically with one or more of the above architectures. Send an email to John Mylchreest if you're interested. Gentoo Weekly Newsletter seeking additional contributors The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is seeking additional contributors to help with community coverage - this involves monitoring mailing lists, web forums, or the international community and summarizing the interesting traffic each week. We'd also like to take on some volunteers to help with some of the other sections, bringing new ideas to the team and lightening the load on the current contributors. The only real requirement of applicants is a solid knowledge of written English. Experience with journalism or Linux, as well as a variety of other skills might be helpful, but are not necessary, although motivation and willingness to work about a couple of hours each week is. Still interested? Drop us a line here with some background info and any ideas you have for the newsletter. Fetchmail 6.2.5 fixes a remote DoS Fetchmail versions 6.2.4 and earlier can be crashed by sending a specially-crafted email to a fetchmail user. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Squid ACL [url_regex] bypass vulnerability Squid versions 2.0 through to 2.5.STABLE4 could allow a remote attacker to bypass Access Control Lists by sending a specially-crafted URL request containing '%00': in such circumstances; the url_regex ACL may not properly detect the malicious URL, allowing the attacker to effectively bypass the ACL. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A failed password operation can cause the OpenLDAP slapd server, if it is using the back-ldbm backend, to free memory that was never allocated. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Remote buffer overflow in MPlayer MPlayer contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the HTTP parser that may allow attackers to run arbitrary code on a user's computer. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Monit A denial of service and a buffer overflow vulnerability have been found in Monit. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement GLSA Integration in Portage Gentoo developer Genone has set up a sticky thread a while ago that deals with the upcoming integration of security announcements in Portage. Check here for updates to the script that is now in gentoolkit, before its final implementation as part of emerge: The Colour: Purple... The "Lila Theme" is a new concerted effort at designing a Gentoo wallpaper and desktop icons collection, in purple (German: "lila") and pink, the predominant Gentoo colours. Sounds awful, looks stunningly beautiful, and it's entirely SVG-based, so you can generate your own PNGs with a Python script via Sodipodi or Inkscape! The Firefox theme has even made it onto the list of the "official" upstream themes. Here's where the artists coordinate their work:
Germany: Yet Another GUM in Oberhausen The next Gentoo User Meeting in Oberhausen (Ruhr region of central Germany) will take place this Wednesday, 7 April. The meeting point will again be the Gasthof Harlos, and the GUM starts at 19:00. Newcomers and regulars alike are most welcome. The coordination thread in the Forums is at its usual location. The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 27 March 2004 and 02 April 2004, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 5510 currently open bugs: 130 are labeled 'blocker', 203 are labeled 'critical', and 460 are labeled 'major'. The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:
Multiple X-Sessions XFree86 allows you to have multiple X sessions open at once. This can be useful if you want or need two different desktop environments open at once.
The desktops will be on terminals F7-F12 The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux project:
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