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Jan Juergens discovered a buffer overflow in the parser for SMS messages in Asterisk. An additional change was backported, which is fully described in a link provided in this article.

Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in Libgdiplus may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Digia is planning to introduce Enginio cloud data storage support into the Qt 5.3 tool-kit release.

Many Phoronix readers likely recall the glory years of the open-source-friendly Linksys WRT54G router that for some is still a great device and there's still the thriving OpenWRT community. Good news out of CES today is that Linksys is letting the WRT54G live-on in the form of the 802.11ac-based WRT1900AC.

With a bit of luck FreeBSD 10.0 will be released in the next few days so here's a look at the arguably ten best features of this next major BSD operating system release.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Marble adds support for cyclestreets; KHelpcenter adds alphabetical sorting for modules; Akonadi speeds up appending new items; Plasma improves change wallpaper animation, etc.

It looks like the first official Ubuntu Phone may have been outed this weekend just ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show this coming week.

The Zeigeist framework that is responsible for much of the logging responsibilities in the GNOME world and powers the GNOME Activity Journal is finally nearing version 1.0. The 1.0 milestone comes after landing a number of improvements recently and after nearly a half-decade of development work.

Paradox Interactive announced today that the Cities in Motion game franchise will be steaming ahead to Linux.

The Ozone-Wayland sub-project for Google Chromium support on the next-generation Linux display server continues to be pushed ahead with improved and new features by Intel open-source developers.

To complement the many Ubuntu 13.10 Linux benchmarks I have published on Phoronix since the "Saucy Salamander" premiere in October, I've started several Fedora 20 benchmarks since December. So far I've shared Fedora 19 vs. Fedora 20 benchmarks and Wayland OpenGL benchmarks, besides using Fedora 20 as the base platform for unrelated tests, while today are some Ubuntu 13.10 vs. Fedora 20 performance benchmarks.

We most often hear of the security breaches due to cross site scripting and SQL injection attacks, after the related vulnerabilities have been successfully exploited. But what could we do to prevent such attacks occurring in the first place?

The U.S. National Security Agency is attempting to build a new breed of supercomputer that theoretically could make short work of cracking most keys used for encrypted communications.

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

The Net as we know it today first became visible to me in March 1994, when I was among several hundred other tech types gathered at Esther Dyson's PC Forum conference in Arizona.

There's now mainline Coreboot support for the Gizmo AMD APU development board.

Wine 1.7.10 is out this Friday as the first bi-weekly development release of 2014.