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Wednesday February 14, 2024. 08:52 PM
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter carries the sad news that long-time contributor Gunnar Hjalmarsson has passed away. Gunnar has been a steadfast contributor to Ubuntu and Debian for well over a decade. His work around translation and localization efforts has helped enable...
The Fedora Project is working toward the release of Fedora Linux 40, and (as with each release) that means changes to the way the project works and the software included in its repositories. Most of the changes set for Fedora 40 are uncontroversial, but one change is causing ...
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system was set up in 1999 as a way to refer unambiguously to known vulnerabilities in software. That system has found itself under increasing strain over the years, and numerous projects have responded by trying to assert...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9 and unbound), Fedora (clamav, firecracker, libkrun, rust-event-manager, rust-kvm-bindings, rust-kvm-ioctls, rust-linux-loader, rust-userfaultfd, rust-versionize, rust-vhost, rust-vhost-user-backend, rust-virtio-queue,...
Tuesday February 13, 2024. 08:13 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced that the kernel project has been accepted as a CVE numbering authority (CNA). The way that CVE numbers will be handled by the kernel is described in this documentation patch: As part of the normal stable release process, kernel changes that ...
The dynamic linker is a critical component of modern Linux systems, being responsible for setting up the address space of most processes. While statically linked binaries have become more popular over time as the tradeoffs that originally led to dynamic linking become less...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (clamav and virtiofsd), Oracle (gimp), Red Hat (gnutls and nss), SUSE (kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container,...
Monday February 12, 2024. 04:57 PM
Once again, runc—a tool for spawning and running OCI containers—is drawing attention due to a high severity container breakout attack. This vulnerability is interesting for several reasons: its potential for widespread impact, the continued difficulty in actually containing c...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libgit2), Fedora (chromium, firecracker, libkrun, openssh, python-nikola, runc, rust-event-manager, rust-kvm-bindings, rust-kvm-ioctls, rust-linux-loader, rust-userfaultfd, rust-versionize, rust-vhost, rust-vhost-user-backend,...
Sunday February 11, 2024. 09:43 PM
The 6.8-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'Commit counts and contents look normal for this phase of the release, nothing here really stands out.'
Friday February 9, 2024. 11:19 PM
Fedora Magazine has announced the creation of Fedora Atomic Desktops: a way of branding Fedora's growing set of rpm-ostree spins. Joseph Gayso wrote 'we’ve seen more of our mainline Fedora Linux spins make the jump to offer a version that implements rpm-ostree. It’s...
Over on the Collabora blog, Helen Koike writes about the DRM-CI project for running automated continuous integration (CI) tests on multiple graphics devices in several different labs. It uses the IGT GPU tools for testing, though there are plans to expand: The roadmap for...
Wednesday February 7, 2024. 03:32 PM
Security updates have been issued by Red Hat (gimp) and Ubuntu (firefox, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, and python-django).
Tuesday February 6, 2024. 10:32 PM
The GNU C Library (glibc) released version 2.39 on January 31, including several new features. Notable highlights include new functions for spawning child processes, support for shadow stacks on x86_64, new security features, and the removal of libcrypt. The glibc...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, and tigervnc), Debian (ruby-sanitize), Fedora (kernel, kernel-headers, qt5-qtwebengine, and runc), Oracle (gnutls, kernel, libssh, rpm, runc, and tigervnc), Red Hat (runc), and SUSE...
Monday February 5, 2024. 09:37 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.4, 6.6.16, and 6.1.77 stable kernels. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.
A common problem in kernel development is controlling when a specific task should be done. Kernel code often executes in contexts where some actions (sleeping, for example, or calling into filesystems) are not possible. Other actions, while possible, may prevent the kernel...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (rear, runc, sudo, and zbar), Fedora (chromium, grub2, libebml, mingw-python-pygments, and python-aiohttp), Gentoo (FreeType, GNAT Ada Suite, Microsoft Edge, NBD Tools, OpenSSL, QtGui, SDDM, Wireshark, and Xen), Mageia (dracut,...
Sunday February 4, 2024. 04:46 PM
The 6.8-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'A slightly larger rc3 that I'd have hoped for, although at this stage in the release process it's not something that really worries me yet.'
Friday February 2, 2024. 04:12 PM
The Zig language 2024 roadmap was presented in a talk last week on Zig Showtime (a show covering Zig news). Andrew Kelley, the benevolent dictator for life of the Zig project, presented his goals for the language, largely focusing on compiler performance and continuing...
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