Development Release: FreeBSD 7.3-RC2 Available

Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Freebsd7.3: “The third and what should be last of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC2, is available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target schedule, as well as the current status of the release is available here. The schedule has slipped by a bit over a week so the actual target for the release announcement is really about a week and a half from …

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sudo vulnerabilities in Ubuntu

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
sudo 1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6.1
sudo-ldap …

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