stack overflows

CentOS has updated vim (multiple vulnerabilities).

Debian has updated enscript (stack overflows), iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities).

Debian has updated mysql-dfsg-5.0 (symlink traversal).

CentOS has updated net-snmp (denial of service).

Gentoo has updated opera (multiple vulnerabilities).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

rPath has updated postfix (denial of service).

Ubuntu has updated enscript (stack overflows).

Linus Torvalds announced the 2.6.27-rc5 Linux Kernel, noting that his "weekly releases" tend to happen every eight days, adding, "the bulk of it is all config updates, and with arm and powerpc leading the pack." Linus continued:

2.6.27-rc5 is out. "The most exciting (well, for me personally - my life is apparently too boring for words) was how we had some stack overflows that totally corrupted some basic thread data structures.

That's exciting because we haven't had those in a long time.