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Friday October 13, 2023. 04:45 PM
Version 23.05.0 of the OpenWrt distribution has been released: 'OpenWrt 23.05 supports over 1790 devices. Support for over 200 new devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 22.03'. Along with new device support, this release features a switch to the...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, tomcat9, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (cacti, cacti-spine, grafana-pcp, libcue, mbedtls, samba, and vim), Oracle (kernel, libvpx, and thunderbird), Red Hat (bind and galera, mariadb), SUSE (exiv2, go1.20, go1.21, and kernel), ...
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Thursday October 12, 2023. 06:24 PM
The Civil Infrastructure Platform project has announced that it will be maintaining the 6.1 kernel for a minimum of ten years past its initial release (and, thus, through 2032). CIP kernels are maintained like regular long-term-stable (LTS) kernels, and developers of the...
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Programs running in the BPF machine can, depending on how they are attached, perform a number of privileged operations; the ability to load and run those programs, thus, must be a privileged operation in its own right. Almost since the beginning of the extended-BPF era,...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (libcue, org-mode, python3.7, and samba), Fedora (libcue, oneVPL, oneVPL-intel-gpu, and xen), Mageia (glibc), Oracle (glibc, kernel, libssh2, libvpx, nodejs, and python-reportlab), Slackware (libcaca), SUSE (gsl, ImageMagick,...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 12, 2023 is available.
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Wednesday October 11, 2023. 10:11 PM
While the vulnerability itself is pretty run-of-the-mill, the recently disclosed GNOME vulnerability has a number of interesting facets. The problem lies in a library that reads files in a fairly obscure format, but it turns out that files in that format are...
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Version 8.4.0 of the curl data-transfer tool has been released, mostly in response to a relatively severe security vulnerability that can be triggered when a SOCKS5 proxy server is in use. See this blog post for details on what went wrong. 'In hindsight, shipping a heap...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl, mediawiki, tomcat10, and tomcat9), Fedora (libcaca, oneVPL, oneVPL-intel-gpu, and tracker-miners), Gentoo (curl), Mageia (cups and firefox, thunderbird), Red Hat (curl, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, libqb, libssh2,...
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Tuesday October 10, 2023. 10:27 PM
The 6.5.7, 6.1.57, 5.15.135, 5.10.198, 5.4.258, 4.19.296, and 4.14.327 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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Back at the end of July, the Python steering council announced its intention to approve the proposal to make the global interpreter lock (GIL) optional over the next few Python releases. The details of that acceptance are still being decided on, but work on the feature is...
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The GitHub blog describes a vulnerability in the libcue library (which is used by the GNOME desktop) that can be exploited by a remote attacker to run code on a desktop system if the target can be convinced to click on a malicious link. The video shows me clicking a link...
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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium, firefox, and kernel), Gentoo (less and libcue), Red Hat (bind, libvpx, nodejs, and python3), Scientific Linux (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (conmon, go1.20, go1.21, shadow, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (libcue, ring,...
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Monday October 9, 2023. 04:55 PM
The Linux Containers project has announced the release version 0.1 of the Incus system container and virtual-machine manager, which is a community-led fork of Canonical's LXD. Incus 0.1 'is roughly equivalent to LXD 5.18 but with a number of breaking changes on top of the...
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One of the significant features added to the mainline kernel during the 6.6 merge window was multi-grain timestamps, which allow the kernel to selectively store file modification times with higher resolution without hurting performance. Unfortunately, this feature also...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (freerdp2, gnome-boxes, grub2, inetutils, lemonldap-ng, prometheus-alertmanager, python-urllib3, thunderbird, and vinagre), Fedora (freeimage, fwupd, libspf2, mingw-freeimage, thunderbird, and vim), Gentoo (c-ares, dav1d, Heimdal,...
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Sunday October 8, 2023. 11:11 PM
Linus has released 6.6-rc5 for testing. 'Things are back to normal, and we have a networking pull this week.'
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Friday October 6, 2023. 06:18 PM
Red Hat has announced that its longstanding 'rhsa-announce' mailing list will be shut down on October 10. That is the list that receives security advisories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a whole slew of related products. Anybody who was counting on that list for Red Hat...
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The latest round of stable kernels, 6.5.6, 6.1.56, and 5.15.134, have been released. Each contains a fairly large collection of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
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On its surface, the BPF virtual machine resembles many other computer architectures; it has registers and instructions to perform the usual operations. But there is a key difference: BPF programs must pass the kernel's verifier before they can be run. The verifier imposes a...
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