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netpbm is graphics conversion toolkit made up of a large number of single-purpose programs. Many of these programs were found to create temporary files in an insecure manner, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking a vulnerable netpbm tool.

This is important. We're talking about tar, that sticky software that bonds files together into one big ball. It's one of the most important programs you'll learn to use from the Linux CLI. Why? Because most free/open source software makes use of tar in distributing itself, that's why. So unless you know - at a minimum - how to untar a tarball, you will remain cut off from a vital flow, nay, from the heartbeat of free/open source software. That's why tar is a necessary skill for you to learn. That, and the fact you need to know how to use it to earn your CLI merit-badge.

At a recent Australian Linux conference, Linux luminaries took turns at the dunking booth.

To further Oracle's ongoing quest to spread Linux everywhere, the company's Linux chief, Dave Dargo, will address enterprise Linux standardization in his

Key open source advocates point to databases, security and storage as the next big categories ripe for commoditization. At a panel

Software industry executives sparred at Harvard Business School this weekend over open source procurement policies being adopted by some governments that could

He was turned down. Earlier that year -- 2002 -- Kruchio had won a worldwide Linux program writing competition. He had entered a

The Linux operating system will pervade the desktops of the corporate world during the next two years, Linux guru Jon "Maddog" Hall has forecast.

Free software often comes with a license, like the GNU General Public License, or others, that grants rights that feel a lot more like ownership.

One of the most requested Mozilla Mail features, an option to separate the Recipient and Sender columns in the thread pane, has been implemented.

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use. This new stable release

The forthcoming PHP version 5 releases will be more about evolutionising the scripting tool and ensuring its smooth interaction with other programming

SimpleXML is a new and unique feature of PHP 5 that solves these problems by turning an XML document into a data structure you can iterate through like a

Black Duck Software Inc. has a different idea to help software developers avoid legal woes: an auditing and management tool for detecting and managing proprietary and open-source code in programs.

By Daniel Drew Turner. Red Hat Inc. on Friday released Update 1 for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 line of its open-source distribution.

worries over open source. There's no denying that Microsoft is worried about Linux — and justifiably so. But, contrary to prevailing

Linux and open source may be reaching a new era as the faithful congregate next week at the LinuxWorld conference in New York. As

With the release of MySQL 4.0, the licensing policy of the wildly popular open source database underwent a subtle change. The code

Oracle is working on a project to let Mozilla's open-source desktop software work better with Oracle's business applications, the latest move by the database

Brendan Eich has updated the Mozilla Development Roadmap, adding a note that the Mozilla Foundation has no plans to retire the Mozilla Application Suite in the