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As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday.

Adobe Systems patched 20 security vulnerabilities in its Shockwave Player on Tuesday. Most of the flaws could allow an attacker to run their own code on an affected computer.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated ImageMagick packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. CVE-2009-1882

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated ImageMagick packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. CVE-2009-1882

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated ghostscript packages that fix various bugs and add an enhancement are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated ipsec-tools package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated cmirror-kernel packages that fix module-loading issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.28.EL.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated GFS-kernel packages that fix module-loading issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.28.EL.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated gnbd-kernel packages that fix module-loading issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.28.EL.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated dlm-kernel packages that fix module-loading issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.28.EL.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated cman-kernel packages that fix module-loading issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.28.EL.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated nss packages that resolve an issue are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A new qspice-client package is now available. [Update 23 August 2010] The channel list in this erratum has been corrected. No changes have been made to the packages.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A new package, spice-xpi, is now available. [Update 23 August 2010] The channel list in this erratum has been corrected. No changes have been made to the packages.

The Vyatta open-source network operating system has been certified for IPv6, which is likely to become a key capability as the number of Internet addresses available under the current version of IP diminishes.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Enhanced apr packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated openoffice.org packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. CVE-2010-2935, CVE-2010-2936

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated acroread packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. CVE-2010-0209, CVE-2010-2213, CVE-2010-2214, CVE-2010-2215, CVE-2010-2216, CVE-2010-2862

Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as well.

An updated RHEV-Tools-iso package that fixes various bugs is now available.