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Friday December 7, 2018. 05:05 PM
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (jupyter-notebook), CentOS (ghostscript), Debian (libphp-phpmailer and policykit-1), Fedora (bird), Gentoo (ede), Mageia (flash-player-plugin), openSUSE (dom4j, dpdk, glib2, nextcloud, postgresql94, and qemu), Oracle (kernel),...
Thursday December 6, 2018. 07:51 PM
Signals have existed in Unix systems for years, despite the general consensus that they are an example of a bad design. Extensions and new ways of using signals pop up from time to time, fixing the issues that have been found. A notable addition was the introduction of...
Microsoft has announced that its 'Edge' browser is joining the Chromium world. 'Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less ...
Security updates have been issued by Mageia (kio-extras), Red Hat (flash-plugin and openstack-neutron), Slackware (gnutls and nettle), SUSE ( aphp53, apache2, apache2-mod_jk, compat-openssl097g, firefox, llvm4, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss, apache2-mod_nss, glib2, kvm, mariadb, ...
Wednesday December 5, 2018. 09:49 PM
Videos from the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference (November 13-15, Vancouver) have now been posted for all sessions, including the Kernel Summit and Networking tracks. They can be found by going to the detailed schedule and clicking on the session of interest.
Daniel Vetter began his talk in the refereed track of the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) by noting that it would be in a somewhat similar vein to other talks he has given, since it is about tooling and workflows that are outside of the kernel norm. But, unlike those...
Stable kernels 4.19.7, 4.14.86, and 4.9.143 have been released, with the usual set of important fixes throughout the tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (suricata), Fedora (cobbler), Oracle (ghostscript), Red Hat (ansible), and Scientific Linux (ghostscript and ruby).
Tuesday December 4, 2018. 08:00 PM
A critical flaw in the Kubernetes container orchestration system has been announced. It will allow any user to compromise a Kubernetes cluster by way of exploiting any aggregated API server that is deployed for it. This affects all Kubernetes versions 1.0 to 1.12, but is...
Back in 2011, Harald Hoyer and Kay Sievers came up with a proposal for Fedora to merge much of the operating system into /usr; former top-level directories, /bin, /lib, and /sbin, would then become symbolic links pointing into the corresponding subdirectories of /usr. Left...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (glibc, qemu, and tmux), Mageia (messagelib), Oracle (ghostscript), Red Hat (ghostscript, OpenShift Container Platform 3.10, OpenShift Container Platform 3.11, OpenShift Container Platform 3.2, OpenShift Container Platform 3.3,...
Monday December 3, 2018. 11:45 PM
The BPF verifier is charged with ensuring that any given BPF program is safe for the kernel to load and run. Programs that fail to terminate are clearly unsafe, as they present an opportunity for denial-of-service attacks. In current kernels, the verifier uses a heavy-handed ...
CentOS has released CentOS Linux 7.6 (1810). 'Updates released since the upstream release are all posted, across all architectures. We strongly recommend every user apply all updates, including the content released today, on your existing CentOS Linux 7 machine by just...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (nsis, openssl, poppler, and tiff), Fedora (dnsdist, drupal7, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, net-snmp, perl, php-Smarty2, and samba), Gentoo (connman, nagios-core, php, and webkit-gtk), Mageia (apache-mod_perl,...
The 4.20-rc5 kernel prepatch is out; among other things, it contains the STIBP changes described in this article. Linus is also thinking about release timing: 'So my current suggestion is that we plan on a Christmas release, everybody gets their pull requests for the next...
Sunday December 2, 2018. 04:44 PM
The 4.19.6, 4.14.85, 4.9.142, 4.4.166, and 3.18.128 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another large set of important fixes.
Friday November 30, 2018. 11:43 PM
As of today, Fedora 27 will not be getting any more updates, including security updates. Users should be planning to upgrade more or less immediately. 'Fedora 28 will continue to receive updates until 4 weeks after the release of Fedora 30. The maintenance schedule of Fedora ...
The BPF virtual machine is the same on all architectures where it is supported; architecture-specific code takes care of translating BPF to something the local processor can understand. So one might be tempted to think that BPF programs would be portable across architectures ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libarchive, perl, and qemu), Fedora (glibc, glusterfs, links, and moodle), Gentoo (libsndfile and postgresql), openSUSE (openssh, rubygem-loofah, and tiff), Oracle (ruby), Red Hat (ruby), and Ubuntu (libssh and linux-aws).
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