Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 14 August 2006Linux World Conference and Expo - San Francisco The Linux World Conference and Expo kicks off this week in San Francisco. As usual, Gentoo will have a booth in the '.Org Pavillion'. The booth will be located between the GNOME and KDE projects. Gentoo will be showing the upcoming 2006.1 release as well as several architectures. This is a good opportunity to meet several Gentoo developers from across the United States. The Expo floor is open from 15 August 2006 through 17 August 2006. The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is conducting a fundraiser, called Rackathon, to raise money for the project. The OSL hosts a large portion of the Gentoo infrastructure, several developer boxes, and provides the primary Gentoo mirror. They also host many other open source projects. Gentoo was the OSL's first client and is among the largest. Money raised will help cover the costs of this free hosting as well as other costs incurred by the project. Donations of 20 USD gets your name on a rack in the OSL for an entire year! Donations to the OSL will help fund further Gentoo hosting and many other open source projects. PyBugz - Python interface to Bugzilla Gentoo developer Alastair Tse has created a Python-based command line interface to the Bugzilla issue tracking system. First conceived as a tool to speed up the workflow for Gentoo developers, PyBugz has been tested on the XenSource and GNOME Bugzilla trackers, also. Gentoo users can install PyBugz by simply using emerge pybugz. Linux.com has published an article, entitled 'Gentoo Portage Secrets'. The article gives some helpful hints on how to utilize new features in portage 2.1 to optimize your Gentoo usage. The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
x11vnc: Authentication bypass in included LibVNCServer code VNC servers created with x11vnc accept insecure protocol types, even when the server does not offer it, resulting in the possibility of unauthorized access to the server. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement ClamAV is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in a Denial of Service and potentially remote execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A heap-based buffer overflow in DUMB could result in the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities Some applications shipped with MIT Kerberos 5 are vulnerable to local privilege escalation. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Warzone 2100 Resurrection: Multiple buffer overflows Warzone 2100 Resurrection server and client are vulnerable to separate buffer overflows, potentially allowing remote code execution. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement libwmf: Buffer overflow vulnerability libwmf is vulnerable to an integer overflow potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Net::Server: Format string vulnerability A format string vulnerability has been reported in Net::Server which can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement WordPress: Privilege escalation A flaw in WordPress allows registered WordPress users to elevate privileges. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 06 August 2006 and 13 August 2006, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10879 currently open bugs: 47 are labeled 'blocker', 138 are labeled 'critical', and 539 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:
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