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Monday November 18, 2024. 09:21 PM
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced the release of a security audit report conducted by security firm Synacktiv. The audit uncovered a number of vulnerabilities: Most of these vulnerabilities have been addressed through official FreeBSD Project security advisories, which...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (binutils, libsoup, squid:4, tigervnc, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (icinga2, postgresql-13, postgresql-15, smarty3, symfony, thunderbird, and waitress), Fedora (dotnet9.0, ghostscript, microcode_ctl, php-bartlett-PHP-CompatInfo,...
Sunday November 17, 2024. 11:33 PM
Linus has released the 6.12 kernel. 'No strange surprises this last week, so we're sticking to the regular release schedule, and that obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow.'. Headline features in this release include: support for the Arm permission overlay...
The 6.11.9, 6.6.62, 6.1.118, 5.15.173, 5.10.230, 5.4.286, and 4.19.324 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
The OpenWrt router-oriented distribution has long used its own opkg package manager. The project has just announced, though, that future releases will use the apk package manager from Alpine Linux instead. 'This new package manager offers a number of advantages over the...
Friday November 15, 2024. 07:37 PM
The kernel's loadable-module facility allows code to be loaded into (and sometimes removed from) a running kernel. Among other things, loadable modules make it possible to run a kernel with only the subsystems needed for the system's hardware and workload. Loadable modules...
The Fedora Project is set to welcome a second desktop edition to its lineup after months (or years, depending when one starts the clock) of discussions. The project recently decided to allow a new working group to move forward with a KDE Plasma Desktop edition that will sit a...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl and unbound), Fedora (krb5 and microcode_ctl), Red Hat (kernel and kernel-rt), SUSE (glib2, python3-wxPython, and ucode-intel), and Ubuntu (golang-1.17, golang-1.18, libgd2, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial,...
Thursday November 14, 2024. 10:22 PM
The Python Package Index (PyPI) has announced that it has finalized support for PEP 740 ('Index support for digital attestations'). Trail of Bits, which performed much of the development work for the implementation, has an in-depth blog post about the work and its adoption,...
Direct memory access (DMA) I/O is simple in concept: a peripheral device moves data directly to or from memory while the CPU is busy doing other things. As is so often the case, DMA is rather more complicated in practice, and the kernel has developed a complicated internal...
A new batch of stable kernels has just been released: 6.11.8, 6.6.61, 6.1.117, and 5.15.172. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (llama-cpp, mingw-expat, python3.6, webkit2gtk4.0, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk & java-latest-openjdk and libarchive), Oracle (expat,...
Wednesday November 13, 2024. 03:51 PM
Programming language polyglots are files that are valid programs in multiple languages, and do different things in each. While polyglots are normally nothing more than a curiosity, the Cosmopolitan Libc project has been trying to put them to a novel use: producing native,...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat), Fedora (chromium and golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit), Mageia (curl, expat, mpg123, networkmanager-libreswan, openssl, php-tcpdf, qbittorrent, and x11-server, x11-server-xwayland, and tigervnc), Red Hat (kernel...
Tuesday November 12, 2024. 09:21 PM
Over the years, there has been steady progress in adding security features to compilers and other tools to assist with hardening the Linux kernel (and, of course, other programs). In something of a tradition in the toolchains track at the Linux Plumbers Conference, Kees Cook ...
Garrett LeSage has written an in-depth article for Fedora Magazine about a new web-based user interface (UI) for Fedora's Anaconda installer, planned to ship with Fedora 42. The article looks at the rationale for moving from GTK 3 to a web-based UI, provides a number of...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-base), Debian (chromium, ghostscript, libarchive, mpg123, ruby-saml, and symfony), Fedora (buildah and podman), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, podman, skopeo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland),...
Monday November 11, 2024. 04:24 PM
What have been the most significant security-related incidents for the open-source community in 2024 (so far)? Marta Rybczyńska recently ran a poll and got some interesting results. At the 2024 Open Source Summit Japan, she presented those results along with some commentary ...
Longtime Debian and Tor developer, Jérémy Bobbio—perhaps better known as 'Lunar'—died on November 8. Lunar was one of the founders of the reproducible builds movement and more recently had been working with Software Heritage. More information and tributes in French can ...
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