Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 14 May 2007The 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:
Lighttpd: Two Denials of Service Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Lighttpd, each allowing for a Denial of Service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement GIMP is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement IPsec-Tools: Denial of Service IPsec-Tools contains a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to crash the IPsec tunnel. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement LibXfont, TightVNC: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in libXfont and TightVNC, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement MySQL: Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in MySQL. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement PostgreSQL: Privilege escalation PostgreSQL contains a vulnerability that could result in SQL privilege escalation. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement ImageMagick: Multiple buffer overflows Multiple integer overflows have been discovered in ImageMagick allowing for the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement XScreenSaver: Privilege escalation XScreenSaver allows local users to bypass authentication under certain configurations. 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 06 May 2007 and 13 May 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10023 currently open bugs: 12 are labeled 'blocker', 112 are labeled 'critical', and 354 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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