SteamOS Updated 153 Released

[Shawn Zipay]

Valve just passed along word that update 153 was pushed out tonight for SteamOS. If you're running SteamOS on your media machine, here is what you have to look forward to.

• Updated NVIDIA drivers to 343.22
• Updated AMD graphics driver to 14.9
• Linux kernel rebased against 3.10.60
• Improved performance of timing system calls for 32-bit applications by backporting i386 VDSO changes from upstream kernel and adding eglibc support for them
• Fixed "XCOM: Enemy Unknown" not focusing on startup

Security fixes and upstream updates:

• axis - Debian 7.7 update
• base-files - Debian 7.7 update
• bind9 - CVE-2014-8500
• ca-certificates - Debian 7.7 update
• curl - CVE-2014-3707
• dbus - CVE-2014-7824
• debian-archive-keyring - Debian 7.7 update
• debootstrap - latest upstream release
• elfutils - Debian 7.7 update
• exim4 - Debian 7.7 update
• file - CVE-2014-3710
• flac - CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028
• hawtjni - Debian 7.7 update
• iceweasel - latest upstream version, fixes CVE-2014-1587, CVE-2014-1590, CVE-2014-1592, CVE-2014-1593, CVE-2014-1594
• ***-scan - Debian 7.7 update
• jasper - CVE-2014-8137, CVE-2014-8138, CVE-2014-9029
• keyutils - Debian 7.7 update
• libdrm - Debian 7.7 update
• libevent - CVE-2014-6272
• libgcrypt11 - CVE-2014-5270
• libtasn1-3 - Debian 7.7 update
• libvdpau - Debian 7.7 update
• libxml2 - CVE-2014-3660
• mime-support - CVE-2014-7209
• mysql-5.5 - CVE-2012-5615 CVE-2014-4274 CVE-2014-4287 CVE-2014-6463 CVE-2014-6464 CVE-2014-6469 CVE-2014-6478 CVE-2014-6484 CVE-2014-6491 CVE-2014-6494 CVE-2014-6495 CVE-2014-6496 CVE-2014-6500 CVE-2014-6505 CVE-2014-6507 CVE-2014-6520 CVE-2014-6530 CVE-2014-6551 CVE-2014-6555 CVE-2014-6559
• net-snmp - Debian 7.7 update
• netcfg - Debian 7.7 update
• nss - CVE-2014-1568, CVE-2014-1569
• ntp - CVE-2014-9293, CVE-2014-9294, CVE-2014-9295, CVE-2014-9296
• perl - Debian 7.7 update
• postgresql-9.1 - Debian 7.7 update
• tzdata - Debian 7.7 update
• unzip - CVE-2014-8139, CVE-2014-8140, CVE-2014-8141
• xdg-utils - Debian 7.7 update

New packages (based on requests from this thread http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ste...8793815429172/)

• cifs-utils
• gksu
• libgksu
• libmng
• nas
• qtwebkit
• screen
• tig

Updated installers are also available at http://repo.steampowered.com/download with the following MD5 signatures:

223022db23d66070f959e464ad2da376 /var/www/download/SteamOSDVD.***
7f926c3ef959316e13b4ef21ab7bab23 /var/www/download/SteamOSInstaller.zip