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lundi 9 octobre 2023, 16:55
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...
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...
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,...
dimanche 8 octobre 2023, 23:11
Linus has released 6.6-rc5 for testing. 'Things are back to normal, and we have a networking pull this week.'
vendredi 6 octobre 2023, 18:18
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...
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.
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...
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,...
jeudi 5 octobre 2023, 22:52
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...
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...
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,...
mercredi 4 octobre 2023, 23:14
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,...
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...
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...
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