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Friday October 6, 2023. 04:34 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (grub2, libvpx, libx11, libxpm, and qemu), Fedora (firefox, matrix-synapse, tacacs, thunderbird, and xrdp), Oracle (glibc), Red Hat (bind, bind9.16, firefox, frr, ghostscript, glibc, ImageMagick, libeconf, python3.11, python3.9,...
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Thursday October 5, 2023. 10:52 PM
Ferrous Systems has announced that its Ferrocene Rust compiler will be released under the Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses. Ferrocene is the main Rust compiler - rustc - but quality managed and qualified for use in automotive and industrial environments (currently by ISO 26262...
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Hardening the Linux kernel is an endless task, with work required on multiple fronts. Sometimes, that work is not done in the kernel itself; other tools, including compilers, can have a significant role to play. At the 2023 GNU Tools Cauldron, Qing Zhao covered some of the...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, libx11, and libxpm), Fedora (ckeditor, drupal7, glibc, golang-github-cncf-xds, golang-github-envoyproxy-control-plane, golang-github-hashicorp-msgpack, golang-github-minio-highwayhash, golang-github-nats-io,...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 5, 2023 is available.
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Wednesday October 4, 2023. 11:14 PM
The eBPF in-kernel virtual machine is approaching its tenth anniversary as part of Linux; it has grown into a tool with many types of uses in the ecosystem. Alexei Starovoitov, who was the creator of eBPF and did much of the development of it, especially in the early going,...
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OpenSSH 9.5 is out. Significant changes include a transport-level ping mechanism and keystroke timing obfuscation: This attempts to hide inter-keystroke timings by sending interactive traffic at fixed intervals (default: every 20ms) when there is only a small amount of...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (glibc, postgresql-11, and thunderbird), Fedora (openmpi, pmix, prrte, and slurm), Gentoo (glibc and libvpx), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (libX11 and libXpm), SUSE (firefox, kernel, libeconf, libqb, libraw, libvpx, ...
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Tuesday October 3, 2023. 09:42 PM
The SteamOS Linux distribution is focused on gaming, naturally, but the effort to build it has resulted in contributions to multiple areas in the Linux ecosystem. Alberto Garcia has been working on SteamOS and came to Bilbao, Spain to describe some of those contributions at...
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Qualys has posted an advisory for a vulnerability in the GNU C Library related to the handling of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable: We successfully exploited this vulnerability and obtained full root privileges on the default installations of Fedora 37 and 38,...
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Ars technica reports on an Arm advisory regarding exploitable vulnerabilities in a number of its GPU drivers. The most prevalent platform affected by the vulnerability is Google’s line of Pixels, which are one of the only Android models to receive security updates on a...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (exim4), Fedora (firecracker, rust-aes-gcm, rust-axum, rust-tokio-tungstenite, rust-tungstenite, and rust-warp), Gentoo (nvidia-drivers), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, glibc, and libwebp), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (ghostscript and ...
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Monday October 2, 2023. 06:30 PM
In last week's episode, a need to preempt kernel code that is executing long-running instructions led to a deeper reexamination of how the kernel handles preemption. There are a number of supported preemption modes, varying from 'none' (kernel code is never preemptible) to...
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For those who are curious about the recently concluded Git Contributor's Summit, Taylor Blau has posted an extensive set of notes from the event. Topics include next-generation backends, libification, backward compatibility, project management, and more.
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Version 3.12 of the Python programming language has been released. The 'What’s New In Python 3.12' page has plenty of details. Highlights of the release include isolated subinterpreter support, more improvements to error messages, more flexible f-strings, Linux perf...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, cups, firefox-esr, firmware-nonfree, gerbv, jetty9, libvpx, mosquitto, open-vm-tools, python-git, python-reportlab, and trafficserver), Fedora (firefox, giflib, libvpx, libwebp, webkitgtk, and xen), Gentoo (Chromium,...
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Linus has released 6.6-rc4 for testing. 'There's nothing particularly odd in here, if you don't count a week of no networking pull as being odd. That does result in rc4 being fairly small, but I suspect we'll just see a bigger rc5 to compensate.'
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Saturday September 30, 2023. 04:22 PM
The 'Zero Day Initiative' site has posted a number of advisories (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) describing a number of flaws in the Exim mail server, some of which are exploitable remotely. These problems, allegedly, were first reported to the project in June 2022, well over one year...
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Friday September 29, 2023. 07:25 PM
On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced the founding of the GNU project. His goal, which seemed wildly optimistic and unattainable at the time, was to write a complete Unix-like operating system from the beginning and make it freely available. Exactly 40 years later...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, jetty9, and vim), Gentoo (Fish, GMP, libarchive, libsndfile, Pacemaker, and sudo), Oracle (nodejs:16 and nodejs:18), Red Hat (virt:av and virt-devel:av), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (chromium, firefox, Golang...
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