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Jan Kurik , Red Hat’s Fedora program Manager informed us about a system-wide change on the fedora 26 release. His proposal is the retirement of synaptics X11 drivers , provided by xorg-x11-dvr-synaptics package. Ferora project’s dev team decided the removal to offer users a better touchpad experience from the default install on Fedora 26 Linux default install that is released in june 2017. For users who prefer synaptics instead of libinput can still install it.

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It was recently discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly sanitized user mode inputs. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges. What this means in summary is that NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to run programs as an administrator. This vulnerability affects the following drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updates vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

32bit OS 64bit OS Uninstall Linux Kernels 3.15.10– Reboot into previous kernel (Grub -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run the following command

32bit OS 64bit OS Uninstall Linux Kernel 3.16.1– Reboot into previous kernel (Grub -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run the following command

Uninstall Linux Kernels 3.15.8, 3.14.15, 3.10.51, & 3.4.101– Reboot into previous kernel (Grub -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run the following command

Xorg/Xserver 7.4 and above (up to 1.15) Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.13) glibc version 2.2 or 2.3 POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

Time to install Linux Kernel 3.14.12which has just been released and this release comes with a number of bug fixes and improvements. As announced by Greg KH email, all users of the 3.14 kernel series must upgrade to this latest release. Some of Kernel 3.14.12 updates Numerous fixes on both Radeon and Nvidia graphics cards Bug fix in stack alignment exception  fix a memory leak on sta rate selection table ALSA: usb-audio: Suppress repetitive debug messages from retire_playback_urb() Bluetooth: Fix SSP acceptor just-works confirmation without MITM Bluetooth: Fix check for connection encryption xhci: Fix runtime suspended xhci from blocking system suspend.

ACPI / video: clean up DMI table for initial black screen problem USB: usbtest: add a timeout for scatter-gather tests efi-pstore: Fix an overflow on 32-bit builds net/compat: Fix minor information leak in siocdevprivate_ioctl() aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10 aio: fix aio request leak when events are reaped by userspace aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10

cpufreq: unlock when failing cpufreq_update_policy() powernv: Fix permissions on sysparam sysfs entries powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB Input: synaptics – fix resolution for manually provided min/max RDMA/cxgb4: Fix memory leaks in c4iw_alloc() error paths MIPS: KVM: Fix memory leak on VCPU hpsa: add new Smart Array PCI IDs (May 2014) powerpc/perf: Ensure all EBB register state is cleared on fork() Revert “MIPS: Save/restore MSA context around signals” pNFS: Handle allocation errors correctly in filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr() NFS: Don’t declare inode uptodate unless all attributes were checked RDMA/cxgb4: add missing padding at end of struct c4iw_alloc_ucontext_resp IB/mlx5: add missing padding at end of struct mlx5_ib_create_cq

USB: usbtest: add a timeout for scatter-gather tests USB: EHCI: avoid BIOS handover on the HASEE E200 efi-pstore: Fix an overflow on 32-bit builds phy: exynos-mipi-video: fix check on array index fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10 fix incorrect OPP count handling in of_init_opp_table ACPICA: utstring: Check array index bound before use. lz4: fix another possible overrun media: saa7134: fix regression with tvtime SCSI: Fix spurious request sense in error handling ARM: mvebu: DT: fix OpenBlocks AX3-4 RAM size USB: sierra: fix urb and memory leak in resume error path USB: sierra: fix urb and memory leak on disconnect media: uvcvideo: Fix clock param realtime setting

CIFS: Fix memory leaks in SMB2_open aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10 aio: fix aio request leak when events are reaped by userspace genirq: Sanitize spurious interrupt detection of threaded irq Bluetooth: Fix properly ignoring LTKs of unknown types random: fix nasty entropy accounting bug scsi_cmnd: Introduce scsi_transfer_length helper target: Report correct response length for some commands iscsi-target: Fix ABORT_TASK + connection reset iscsi_queue_req memory leak Bluetooth: Fix authentication check for FIPS security level Bluetooth: 6LoWPAN: Fix MAC address universal/local bit handling ext4: fix data integrity sync in ordered mode x86_32, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys lz4: fix another possible overrun Btrfs: fix scrub_print_warning to handle skinny metadata extents btrfs: allocate raid type kobjects dynamically Btrfs: send, account for orphan directories when building path strings Btrfs: output warning instead of error when loading free space cache failed

PCI/MSI: Fix memory leak in free_msi_irqs() ahci: add PCI ID for Marvell 88SE91A0 SATA Controller fs,userns: Change inode_capable to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid auditsc: audit_krule mask accesses need bounds checking rtl28xxu: add 1b80:d395 Peak DVB-T USB netfilter: ipv4: defrag: set local_df flag on defragmented skb rtl28xxu: add USB ID for Genius TVGo DVB-T03 rtl28xxu: add chipset version comments into device list ahci: Add Device ID for HighPoint RocketRaid 642L MIPS: asm: thread_info: Add _TIF_SECCOMP flag iser-target: Fix multi network portal shutdown regression target: Allow READ_CAPACITY opcode in ALUA Standby access state Target/iscsi,iser: Avoid accepting transport connections during stop stage rtl28xxu: add ID [0ccd:00b4] TerraTec NOXON DAB Stick (rev 3) mei: me: fix hw ready reset flow mei: me: drop harmful wait optimization mei: me: read H_CSR after asserting reset

Boss 5.0 Debian 7.5 Linux Mint 17

Fix reference counting imbalance while sending fragment Fix local TT check for outgoing arp requests in DAT Added support for Sierra Wireless Network Usb: option driver, add support for Telit UE910v2 SCSI: dual scan thread bug fix Do not waste memory on mods with no tracepoints ipv4: ip_tunnels: disable cache for nbma gre tunnels tracing/uprobes: Fix uprobe_cpu_buffer memory leak

Fixed a performance regression when running KDE with desktop effects using the OpenGL compositing backend Fixed a regression that could cause OpenGL rendering corruption on X screens with 30 bit per pixel color Fixed several cosmetic issues in the clock control user interface of nvidia-settings. Added support for the GLX_EXT_stereo_tree extension Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL programs to freeze under some low memory conditions. Updated the display configuration page in nvidia-settings to uniquely identify DisplayPort 1.