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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated freetype packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. 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-2010-2498, CVE-2010-2499, CVE-2010-2500, CVE-2010-2519, CVE-2010-2527, CVE-2010-2541

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated freetype packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. 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-2010-2500, CVE-2010-2527, CVE-2010-2541

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated rhev-hypervisor packages that fix several bugs are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated vdsm22 packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated Xen packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated kvm packages that resolve several issues are now available.

Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput considerably.

Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community, company officials said in an interview.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated java-1.4.2-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras, 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-2010-0084, CVE-2010-0085, CVE-2010-0087, CVE-2010-0088, CVE-2010-0089, CVE-2010-0091, CVE-2010-0095, CVE-2010-0839, CVE-2010-0840, CVE-2010-0841, CVE-2010-0842, CVE-2010-0843, CVE-2010-0844, CVE-2010-0846, CVE-2010-0847, CVE-2010-0848, CVE-2010-0849

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated lvm2 packages that fix one bug are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated tcsh package that fixes the issue of a null pointer dereference in proc cwd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated man-pages package that corrects documentation errors and omissions is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated jboss-seam2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important 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. [Updated 28 July 2010] The CVE-2010-1871 description has been updated to reflect that an attacker does not need to be authenticated to exploit this issue. No changes have been made to the packages. CVE-2010-1871

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated lvm2-cluster package that fixes one security issue is 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-2010-2526

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated lvm2-cluster package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Global File System 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-2010-2526

Last week, Facebook announced that it had amassed 500 million users, a formable portion of the global Internet audience. But even as Mark Zuckerberg and company celebrates, others are busy trying to uproot Facebook's popularity by establishing a set of open standards to share Facebook-like features across the Internet.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated vnc packages that fix various bugs are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated glibc packages that fix various bugs are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated virt-v2v, libguestfs and augeas packages that fix various bugs are now available.