Bugzilla Plugin for Helga Chat Bot

Helga is a Python chat bot. Full documentation can be found at http://helga.readthedocs.org. The Bugzilla plugin allows Helga to respond to Bugzilla ticket numbers in IRC and print information about the tickets. For example: 03:14 <devzing> bz 123 03:14 <helgabot> devzing might be talking about https://app.devzing.com/demo/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123 [[TestProduct] Ticketing Box City selector] Find out more at https://github.com/ktdreyer/helga-bugzilla

Access Bugzilla from Python

The python-bugzilla package is available on GitHub or PyPi pip install python-bugzilla This package provides two bits: ‘bugzilla’ python module for talking to a Bugzilla instance over XMLRPC /usr/bin/bugzilla command line tool for performing actions from the command line: create or edit bugs, various queries, etc. This was originally written specifically for Red Hat’s Bugzilla …

GHOST Attack

Another exploit has been discovered which affects many Linux servers. The moniker is GHOST. During a code audit performed internally at Qualys, we discovered a buffer overflow in the __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function of the GNU C Library (glibc). This bug is reachable both locally and remotely via the gethostbyname*() functions, so we decided to analyze it …