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A 16-year-old critical vulnerability has been discovered in PPP, iXsystems is merging FreeNAS and TrueNAS, GCompris moves to Patreon for funding, and Samba makes big changes to its cryptography implementation.

A 16-year-old critical vulnerability has been discovered in PPP, iXsystems is merging FreeNAS and TrueNAS, GCompris moves to Patreon for funding, and Samba makes big changes to its cryptography implementation.

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pppd vulnerable to buffer overflow due to a flaw in EAP packet processing
Critical PPP Daemon Flaw Opens Most Linux Systems to Remote Hackers
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying
GCompris
GCompris is now Free to install everywhere
Patreon: Timothée Giet is creating GCompris, Educational Free Software for Children
Samba 4.12.0 Available for Download
Samba 4.12 Features added/changed
Samba and GnuTLS