Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 23 April 2007Over the past week, the GWN staff has had many users contact them, interested in writing articles for the GWN, and the GWN team would like to publicly express our gratitude and thanks to the new GWN contributors. This does not mean, however, that the GWN team is not looking for more contributors, as the team is always looking for articles, ideas for 'Tip of the week', and so on. Plus, as the saying goes - "The more the merrier!". Feel free to email the GWN team at gwn-feedback@gentoo.org or visit us in our IRC channel (#gentoo-gwn on irc.freenode.net) for article suggestions and any other ideas.
Markus Ullmann, also known as 'Teh Jokey (TM)' is a 25 year old developer and part of our 'German conspiracy'. Markus currently lives in Uetersen, together with his family. Markus is studying electrical engineering at the HAW Hamburg University. He took an apprenticeship as industrial electrician at Beiersdorf and quickly discovered that building such production machines would be fun. He decided to become an engineer and is currently on his 3rd semester. Markus gets a lot of practical courses involving numeric simulations with C, developing on FPGA boards, and getting into the deep secrets of diodes and transistors. Of the variety of hobbies that Markus enjoys, which include working on Gentoo, swimming, playing D20 (Dungeons and Dragons), and playing keyboard, his favorite is swimming. Ironically, this self described computer nerd met the love of his life, Svenja (who also considers herself a computer nerd), via swimming. So about that name, Jokey... Markus got the name Jokey from a LAN party after having played pranks on several fellow gamers. Someone recalled the children's cartoon 'The Smurfs' and the infamous character Jokey... the name still sticks to this day. Markus is an active member of two German Linux User groups: LUG Flensburg e.V. and LUG Norderstedt e.V. He also likes to attend conventions and FOSS-events. You could have met him at FOSDEM (Belgium) or CeBit (Germany). Markus got started with Linux back in the SuSE 5.1 days, but his real Linux life started with Xlinux 1.0 from a Golden Chip CD. He used that for several years until he switched to LinuxFromScratch, since he was already compiling most packages from scratch. After an OpenSSL update damaged his whole KDE setup, he began looking for an alternative and ultimately found something with an "automated" source build: Gentoo 1.2. Around mid 2005, Jokey decided to help out with the heavily aging OpenLDAP package as he wanted to get into the tree. After having fixed some 20 bugs and sending various patches to Benjamin Smee, Benjamin mentored and lured Markus down the path of dev-hood. Jokey is currently the Gentoo overlays lead and sunrise lead. He also works in x86 and takes care of netmon, lcd and OpenLDAP. Quite a busy bee right? Markus' first apps are KDE, KVIRC, Thunderbird, Firefox, and gajim. He's also a fan of Beryl as window manager to spice up his X-environment. 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:
xine-lib: Heap-based buffer overflow xine-lib is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Inkscape: Two format string vulnerabilities Two format string vulnerabilities have been discovered in Inkscape, allowing for user-assisted execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement The Gentoo implementation of Vixie Cron is vulnerable to a local Denial of Service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice.org, allowing for remote execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A vulnerability has been discovered in file allowing for a denial of service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A memory leak has been discovered in FreeRADIUS, possibly allowing for a Denial of Service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement MadWifi: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MadWifi driver, possibly leading to a Denial of Service and information disclosure. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Aircrack-ng: Remote execution of arbitrary code Aircrack-ng contains a buffer overflow that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A vulnerability has been discovered in 3proxy allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Courier-IMAP: Remote execution of arbitrary code A vulnerability has been discovered in Courier-IMAP allowing for remote code execution with root privileges. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners and various developers. Most packages which are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 16 April 2007 and 22 April 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10066 currently open bugs: 14 are labeled 'blocker', 105 are labeled 'critical', and 369 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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