CVE-2014-7169 is an additional security issue in the GNU bash shell that emerged after researchers discovered the fixes for CVE-2014-6271 did not completely solve the vulnerabilities they had identified. Fedora Magazine has a very useful story that tells you why these issues are important. Since I already published a story …
IMPORTANT: Refer to this update for revised instructions. What is CVE-2014-6271? CVE-2014-6271 is a GNU bash vulnerability that permits specially-crafted environment variables to inject shell commands. This is a fairly serious issue. If you don’t want to wait out the hours until stable updates are issued to fix your Fedora …
I know there are a ton of posts about Fedora 21 Alpha hitting the Fedora Planet, and hopefully elsewhere on the web. But I couldn’t resist saying congratulations to the Fedora community on getting this release out. We’ve had a long release cycle for Fedora 20 to accommodate a lot …
One of the aspects of Fedora is holding public meetings on IRC. We use Meetbot (courtesy of Debian, thanks!) to help administer meetings. Common commands allow Meetbot to do all the hard work of recording proceedings. The automatic minutes make it possible for people who couldn’t attend to follow what …
Here’s a summary of Saturday’s activity at Flock 2014 where I participated or attended. I also have blog entries for Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. The constant stream of late nights was really getting to me. Didn’t arrive at the venue until about 9:15am. I skipped the first …
Here’s a summary of Friday’s activity at Flock 2014 where I participated or attended. I also have blog entries for Day 1 and Day 2. Didn’t make it up quite so early today, due to not turning in until about 2:30am the previous night. I got to the school basically …
Here’s a summary of today’s activity at Flock 2014 where I participated or attended. I also have a blog entry reporting what I did on Day 1 of the conference. Up at 7:00am (relatively late) to meet Fedorans for breakfast before going to the venue. I attended Stephen Gallagher’s talk …
Here’s a summary of today’s activity where I participated or attended: Up at 5:45am so Matthew and I could meet up with Josh Boyer, Tom Callaway, Ruth Suehle, and Joe Brockmeier for breakfast. Then we arrived at the Flock venue early. Helped set up rooms with wifi information for attendees. …
If you’ve been reading the Planet Fedora feed lately, you probably know that we’re coming up to time for Flock 2014, a major Fedora conference for Fedora users and contributors from North America and EMEA (Europe/Middle East/Africa). Along with most of the Fedora Engineering team, I’m headed to Prague, Czech …
I just bought a new Logitech M570 wireless trackball for use with my Fedora workstation. I favor a trackball over a moving mouse, because it’s easier on the joints, not to mention more practical on a crowded desk. My previous trackball device was a wired Logitech, and it developed a …