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Friday July 5, 2024. 02:17 PM
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (cockpit, python-astropy, python3-docs, and python3.12), Gentoo (BusyBox, GNU Coreutils, GraphicsMagick, podman, PuTTY, Sofia-SIP, TigerVNC, and WebKitGTK+), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable and openvpn), SUSE (cockpit, krb5, and...
Thursday July 4, 2024. 06:30 PM
Random numbers, it seems, can never be random enough, and they cannot be generated quickly enough. The kernel's getrandom() system call might, after years of discussion, be seen as sufficiently secure by most users, but it is still a system call. Linux system calls are...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds, c-ares, container-tools, cups, fontforge, go-toolset, iperf3, less, libreoffice, libuv, nghttp2, openldap, python-idna, python-jinja2, python-pillow, python3, python3.11-PyMySQL, qemu-kvm, and xmlrpc-c), Debian (znc),...
Wednesday July 3, 2024. 09:32 PM
There are a handful of extensions to the 'new' mount API that Christian Brauner wanted to discuss as part of a filesystem session at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. In the session, though, the only one that he got to was a followup to...
The Universal Blue project, which produces operating system images based on Fedora's Atomic Desktops, has issued an announcement that manual steps are required to continue receiving updates. Jorge Castro wrote: If you use Bazzite, Bluefin, Aurora, or any other Universal...
In 2016, Oliver Smith reached a point of frustration with the short lifespan of updates for his Android phone. Taking matters into his own hands, he began developing postmarketOS, a Linux distribution for mobile phones. Eight years later, the core team and trusted...
Version 4.10.0 of GNU findutils has been released. Notable changes include allowing find -name / as a valid pattern, and accepting larger UIDs/GIDs for find -user and find -group. It is also once again possible to build findutils on systems with musl-libc.
David Rosenthal looks back at 40 years of the X Window System: A major reason for Sun's early success was that they in effect open-sourced the Network File System. X11 was open source under the MIT license. I, and some of the other Sun engineers, understood that NeWS could ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (golang and kernel), Fedora (ghostscript and openssh), Mageia (espeak-ng), Red Hat (389-ds, c-ares, container-tools, cups, fontforge, go-toolset, iperf3, less, libreoffice, libuv, linux-firmware, nghttp2, openldap, pki-core,...
Tuesday July 2, 2024. 03:43 PM
Like many kernel subsystems, the Linux security module (LSM) subsystem makes extensive use of indirect function calls. Those calls, however, are increasingly problematic, and the pressure to remove them has been growing. The good news is that there is a patch series from KP...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (httpd:2.4/httpd), Arch Linux (openssh), Fedora (cups, emacs, and python-urllib3), Gentoo (OpenSSH), Mageia (ffmpeg, gdb, openssl, python-idna, and python-imageio), Red Hat (golang and kernel), SUSE (booth, libreoffice,...
Monday July 1, 2024. 03:27 PM
On May 7, Kees Cook sent a proposal to the linux-kernel mailing list, asking for the kernel developers to start working on a way to mitigate unintentional arithmetic overflow, which has been a source of many bugs. This is not the first time Cook has made a request along...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dcmtk, edk2, emacs, glibc, gunicorn, libmojolicious-perl, openssh, org-mode, pdns-recursor, tryton-client, and tryton-server), Fedora (freeipa, kitty, libreswan, mingw-gstreamer1, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free,...
OpenSSH 9.8 has been released, fixing an ugly vulnerability: Successful exploitation has been demonstrated on 32-bit Linux/glibc systems with ASLR. Under lab conditions, the attack requires on average 6-8 hours of continuous connections up to the maximum the server will...
FreeDOS is an open-source operating system designed to be compatible with the now-defunct MS-DOS. Three decades have now passed since the FreeDOS project was first announced, and it is still alive and well with a small community of developers and users committed to running...
Linus has released 6.10-rc6 for testing. 'This release continues to be fairly calm, and rc6 looks pretty small. It's also entirely just random small fixes spread all over, with no bigger pattern.'
Friday June 28, 2024. 04:37 PM
The Free Software Foundation Europe has submitted a joint position to the European Commission (EC), claiming that Apple has failed to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). This is the law that requires Apple to support alternative application stores on the devices ...
With the Rust-for-Linux project starting to gain some ground, it is worth looking at other operating systems that use Rust in their kernels. There are many attempts to use Rust for operating system development, but Redox may be the most complete. Redox is an MIT-licensed...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (pki-core), Debian (dlt-daemon and plasma-workspace), Fedora (emacs and kernel), Mageia (erofs-utils, libheif, libopenmpt, and wget), Red Hat (pki-core and python3), SUSE (frr), and Ubuntu (fontforge, sqlite3, and squid3).
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