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mercredi 20 mars 2024, 13:51
Security updates have been issued by Debian (fontforge and imagemagick), Fedora (firefox), Mageia (cherrytree, python-django, qpdf, and sqlite3), Red Hat (bind, cups, emacs, fwupd, gmp, kernel, libreoffice, libX11, nodejs, opencryptoki, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql:10,...
mardi 19 mars 2024, 22:18
There are a number of different language-enhancement ideas that crop up with some regularity in the Python community; many of them have been debated and shot down multiple times over the years. When one inevitably arises anew, it can sometimes be difficult to tamp it down,...
Version 124.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include support for 'caret browsing mode' in the PDF viewer and the ability to control the sorting of tabs in the Firefox View screen.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, postgresql-11, and zfs-linux), Fedora (freeimage, mingw-expat, and mingw-freeimage), Mageia (apache-mod_security-crs, expat, and multipath-tools), Oracle (.NET 7.0 and kernel), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and kpatch-patch), ...
Man Yue Mo explains how to compromise a Pixel 8 phone even when the Arm memory-tagging extension is in use, by taking advantage of the Mali GPU. So, by using the GPU to access physical addresses directly, I'm able to completely bypass the protection that MTE offers....
lundi 18 mars 2024, 16:17
Kernel developers have long been told that any attempt to allocate memory might fail, so their code must be prepared for memory to be unavailable. Informally, though, the kernel's memory-management subsystem implements a policy whereby requests below a certain size will not...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl, spip, and unadf), Fedora (chromium, iwd, opensc, openvswitch, python3.6, shim, shim-unsigned-aarch64, and shim-unsigned-x64), Mageia (batik, imagemagick, irssi, jackson-databind, jupyter-notebook, ncurses, and yajl), Oracle...
vendredi 15 mars 2024, 21:05
Cranelift is an Apache-2.0-licensed code-generation backend being developed as part of the Wasmtime runtime for WebAssembly. In October 2023, the Rust project made Cranelift available as an optional component in its nightly toolchain. Users can now use Cranelift as the...
Zach Mitchell has announced the 1.0 release of Flox, a tool that lets its users install packages from nixpkgs inside portable virtual environments, and share those virtual environments with others as an alternative to Docker-style containers. Flox is based on Nix but allows...
Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.8.1, 6.7.10, 6.6.22, 6.1.82, 5.15.152, 5.10.213, 5.4.272, and 4.19.310 stable kernels. As always, they contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users of those kernels should upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (composer and node-xml2js), Fedora (baresip), Mageia (fonttools, libgit2, mplayer, open-vm-tools, and packages), Red Hat (dnsmasq, gimp:2.8, and kernel-rt), and SUSE (389-ds, gdb, kernel, python-Django, python3, python36-pip,...
jeudi 14 mars 2024, 16:00
As of this writing, just over 4,900 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline for the 6.9 release. This work includes the usual array of changes all over the kernel tree; read on for a summary of the most significant work merged during the first part of the 6.9 ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and openvswitch), Fedora (chromium, python-multipart, thunderbird, and xen), Mageia (java-17-openjdk and screen), Red Hat (.NET 7.0,.NET 8.0, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, postgresql:13, and postgresql:15), Slackware (expat),...
mercredi 13 mars 2024, 19:08
Kaitlyn Abdo of Fedora's AI/ML SIG opened an issue with the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) recently that carried a few tricky questions about packaging machine-learning (ML) models for Fedora. Specifically, the SIG is looking for guidance on whether...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (edk2, freeipa, kernel, and liblas), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (docker, edk2, kernel, kernel-rt, and kpatch-patch), SUSE (axis, fontforge, gnutls, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kernel, python3, sudo, and zabbix), and Ubuntu (dotnet7, dotnet8, ...
The pidfd abstraction is a Linux-specific way of referring to processes that avoids the race conditions inherent in Unix process ID numbers. Since a pidfd is a file descriptor, it needs a filesystem to implement the usual operations performed on files. As the use of pidfds...
mardi 12 mars 2024, 21:38
The mainline kernel has just received a set of commits addressing the 'register file data sampling' hardware vulnerability. RFDS may allow a malicious actor to infer data values previously used in floating point registers, vector registers, or integer registers. RFDS does...
Herb Sutter, chair of the ISO C++ standards committee, writes about the current problems with writing secure C++, and his personal opinion on next steps to address this while maintaining backward compatibility. If there were 90-98% fewer C++...
Serialization is the process of transforming Python objects into a sequence of bytes which can be used to recreate a copy of the object later — or on another machine. pickle is Python's native serialization module. It can store complex Python objects, making it an...
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