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RHSA-2017:3376-1: Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 TUS Retirement Notice

2017-12-05 KENNETH 0

RHSA-2017:3376-1: Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 TUS Retirement Notice Red Hat Enterprise Linux: This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Telecommunications Update Support (TUS). This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Telecommunications Update Support (TUS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. Source: RHSA-2017:3376-1: Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 TUS Retirement Notice

Extend your desktop application with Windows 10 features using the new Visual Studio Application Packaging Project

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Extend your desktop application with Windows 10 features using the new Visual Studio Application Packaging Project Visual Studio 2017 15.4 introduced the new Windows Application Packaging project to help you modernizing your application by using the new Windows 10 App Deployment Stack. We talked about it in our previous post: Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your app and make it store ready and today we want to describe the new capabilities in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 that enable new scenarios to the Windows application packaging project to take advantage of more Windows 10 features in your applications. During this article we will cover three examples to highlight the new capabilities added to the packaging project to enable packaging for not only Win32 applications, but also UWP applications and components: Background execution using UWP background tasks. [ more… ]

Breaking on DOM Mutations in the Microsoft Edge DevTools

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Breaking on DOM Mutations in the Microsoft Edge DevTools Editor’s note: This continues the series we began last week, highlighting what’s new and improved in the Microsoft Edge DevTools with EdgeHTML 16. As the web platform evolves, the line between web and application developers continues to blur. It’s common now for a web site to be more like a web app, with complex, single-page user interfaces built up by a combination of libraries and custom JavaScript code. This in turn has led to a web platform that requires more sophisticated tools to efficiently debug. As we rely more and more on JavaScript to build up the DOM, and rely on tools that interact with and abstract away from us the nuances of DOMs across browsers, we lose the ability to easily know what caused a change to an interface node, [ more… ]

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USN-3498-2: curl vulnerability

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USN-3498-2: curl vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3498-2 4th December, 2017 curl vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary curl could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input. Software description curl – HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries Details USN-3498-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update providesthe corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2017-8817) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libcurl3-nss 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19 curl 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19 libcurl3-gnutls 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19 libcurl3 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. [ more… ]

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USN-3503-1: Evince vulnerability

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USN-3503-1: Evince vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3503-1 4th December, 2017 evince vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Evince could be made to run programs if it printed a specially crafted file. Software description evince – Document viewer Details It was discovered that Evince incorrectly handled printing certain DVIfiles. If a user were tricked into opening and printing a specially-namedDVI file, an attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 17.04: evince 3.24.0-0ubuntu1.3 evince-common 3.24.0-0ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: evince 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.3 evince-common 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.4 evince-common 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.4 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the [ more… ]