|
Navigation
Recherche
Top: LWN.net
|
PC / Tech. > LWN.net
mercredi 4 octobre 2023, 15:21
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, ...
mardi 3 octobre 2023, 21:42
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...
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,...
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...
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 ...
lundi 2 octobre 2023, 18:30
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...
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.
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...
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,...
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.'
samedi 30 septembre 2023, 16:22
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...
vendredi 29 septembre 2023, 19:25
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...
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...
jeudi 28 septembre 2023, 17:07
While the CVE process was created in response to real problems, it's increasingly clear that CVE numbers are creating problems of their own. At the 2023 GNU Tools Cauldron, Siddhesh Poyarekar expressed the frustration that toolchain developers have felt as the result of...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ncurses), Fedora (emacs, firecracker, firefox, libkrun, python-oauthlib, and virtiofsd), Mageia (glibc and vim), Oracle (18), SUSE (bind, binutils, busybox, cni, cni-plugins, container-suseconnect, containerd, curl, exempi,...
mercredi 27 septembre 2023, 22:09
Using larger block sizes in the kernel for I/O is a recurring topic in storage and block-layer circles. The topic came up in discussions at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit (LSFMM) back in May. One of the participants in those discussions,...
Security updates have been issued by Oracle (libtiff), Red Hat (libtiff, nodejs:16, and nodejs:18), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (bind, cacti, cacti-spine, ImageMagick, kernel, libwebp, netatalk, open-vm-tools, postfix, quagga, wire, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (cups, linux,...
mardi 26 septembre 2023, 22:04
The AI boom is clearly upon us, but there are still plenty of questions swirling around this technology. Some of those questions are legal ones and there have been lawsuits filed to try to get clarification—and perhaps monetary damages. Van Lindberg is a lawyer who is...
Version 118.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include improved fingerprinting prevention and automated translation: 'Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in...
|
56 sources (32 en français)
Date Actuelle
ven. 19 avril - 18:07 CEST
|
