News briefs for March 7, 2019.
Canonical has released a Linux kernel security patch for Ubuntu 18.10 on the heels of yesterday's patch for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. According to Softpedia News[1], this patch addresses two of the same vulnerabilities as yesterday's patch: CVE-2019-6133[2] and CVE-2018-18397[3]. It also addresses CVE-2019-16880[4], which is an out of bounds write vulnerability discovered by Jason Wang. Update now if you haven't already.
man-pages-5.00 was released[5] yesterday. Michael Kerrisk, the man page maintainer, writes: "This release resulted from patches, bug reports, reviews, and comments from around 130 contributors. The release is rather larger than average, since it has been nearly a year since the last release. The release includes more than 600 commits that changed nearly 400 pages. In addition, 3 new manual pages were added." The release tarball is available from kernel.org[6], the browsable pages are at man7.org[7], and the Git repo is available from kernel.org[8].
Be sure you're running the latest version of Google Chrome: 72.0.3626.121. Google fixed a zero-day exploit last week, but only yesterday "publicized that CVE-2019-5786 was 'High' severity and a zero-day. Source: 9to5Google[9].
Qt Creator 4.9 Beta2 was released[10] today. You can read about the changes here[11], and download the open-source version from here[12].
KDevelop 5.3.2 was released today[13]. This is a stabilization and bugfix release. You can find the installers, AppImage and source code archives here[14].
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