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Monday January 15, 2024. 04:21 PM
The openSUSE project has confirmed that there will be a successor to openSUSE Leap 15, but is not sharing a lot of details at this point. The transition to Leap 16 is not just a numerical step-up but symbolizes a significant path forward in technology and user experiences....
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John Stawinski IV describes, in detail, how he and a partner were able to compromise the security of the heavily used PyTorch project. Our exploit path resulted in the ability to upload malicious PyTorch releases to GitHub, upload releases to AWS, potentially add code to...
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As the Rust-for-Linux project advances, the kernel is gradually accumulating abstraction layers that enable Rust code to interface with the existing C code. As the discussion around the set of filesystem abstractions posted by Wedson Almeida Filho in December shows, though,...
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Security updates have been issued by CentOS (bind, cups, curl, firefox, ipa, iperf3, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libssh2, linux-firmware, open-vm-tools, openssh, postgresql, python, python3, squid, thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Fedora...
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Friday January 12, 2024. 11:00 PM
The 5.10.207 stable kernel update has been released; it consists entirely of a handful of reverts of SCSI patches.
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The Linux Mint distribution has announced the release of Linux Mint 21.3, which is codenamed 'Virginia'. It has the Cinnamon 6.0 desktop, 'comes with full support for SecureBoot and compatibility with a wider variety of BIOS and EFI implementation', has added new features to ...
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The 6.8 merge window has gotten off to a relatively slow start; reasons for that include a significant scheduler performance regression that Linus Torvalds stumbled into and has spent time tracking down. Even so, 4,282 non-merge changesets have found their way into the...
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Users of SourceHut will have noticed that the site has been unreachable; Drew DeVault has now posted a report on what is happening (it's a distributed denial-of-service attack) and what is being done to recover. We deal with ordinary DDoS attacks in the normal course of...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel, linux-5.10, php-phpseclib, php-phpseclib3, and phpseclib), Fedora (openssh and tinyxml), Gentoo (FreeRDP and Prometheus SNMP Exporter), Mageia (packages), Red Hat (openssl), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-rs and...
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Thursday January 11, 2024. 04:20 PM
For those of you still using DSA keys with SSH: the project has announced its plans to remove support for that algorithm around the beginning of 2025. The only remaining use of DSA at this point should be deeply legacy devices. As such, we no longer consider the costs of...
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The data structure known as a 'closure' first found its way into the mainline kernel with the addition of bcache in the 3.10 development cycle. With the advent of bcachefs in 6.7, though, it acquired a second user and was moved to the kernel's lib directory, making it...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (chromium, python-paramiko, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Oracle (ipa, libxml2, python-urllib3, python3, and squid), Red Hat (.NET 6.0,.NET 7.0,.NET 8.0, container-tools:4.0, fence-agents, frr, gnutls, idm:DL1, ...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 11, 2024 is available.
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As part of my quest to master Emacs, which is sort of a sub-quest on the way toward learning more about Lisp, I have spent a fair amount of time discovering various corners of the Emacs world. One of those is the famous 'Org mode' that is used for a wide variety of...
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Wednesday January 10, 2024. 05:03 PM
The 4.14.336 stable kernel update has been released with a small handful of fixes; this is the end of the line for the 4.14 stable series: This is the LAST 4.14.y kernel to be released. It is now officially end-of-life. Do NOT use this kernel version anymore, please move...
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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (libssh), Gentoo (FAAD2 and RedCloth), Red Hat (kpatch-patch and nss), SUSE (hawk2, LibreOffice, opera, and tar), and Ubuntu (glibc, golang-1.13, golang-1.16, linux-azure, linux-gkeop, monit, and postgresql-9.5).
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A new release for any project with a fix for a 12-year old CVE is going to stand out pretty obviously; a recent release has a fix of that nature, but the trail of CVE-2012-5639 is rather elusive. The Apache OpenOffice project made its 4.1.15 release with fixes for four CVEs,...
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Tuesday January 9, 2024. 08:32 PM
The Vcc compiler has been announced. It’s exactly what the name implies: a clang-based compiler that outputs code that runs on Vulkan. Vcc can be thought of as a GLSL and HLSL competitor, but the true intent of this project is to retire the concept of shading languages...
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OpenWrt developer John Crispin says: 'In 2024 the OpenWrt project turns 20 years! Let's celebrate this anniversary by launching our own first and fully upstream supported hardware design.' The rest of the message describes the proposed OpenWrt-native network-routing system,...
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Thorsten Leemhuis writes about his plans for improving the kernel's regression handling in the coming year. Top-priority will be 'make regzbot more useful for kernel subsystem maintainers' from now on. My tracking efforts of course will continue, but everything except...
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