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lundi 17 mai 2021, 22:52
There have been many disagreements over the years in the kernel community concerning the exporting of internal kernel symbols to loadable modules. Exporting a symbol often exposes implementation decisions to outside code, makes it possible to use (or abuse) kernel...
The T2 System Development Environment Linux 21.5 was released with 18 pre- and cross-compiled architectures. 'The 21.5 release received updates across the board, while a major point of work was the GCC 11 update as well as re-basing and fixing upstream regressions for the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libimage-exiftool-perl and postgresql-9.6), Fedora (chromium, exiv2, firefox, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, mariadb, and python-impacket), Mageia (avahi), openSUSE (chromium, drbd-utils, dtc, ipvsadm, jhead, nagios,...
The 5.13-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'The fixes here are all over the place - drivers, arch updates, documentation, tooling.. Nothing particularly stands out'.
vendredi 14 mai 2021, 17:58
Group membership is normally used to grant access to some resource; examples might include using groups to control access to a shared directory, a printer, or the ability to use tools like sudo. It is possible, though, to use group membership to deny access to a resource...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.12.4, 5.11.21, 5.10.37, and 5.4.119 stable kernels. These are enormous updates, with changes throughout the kernel tree; users should upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (jetty9, libgetdata, and postgresql-11), openSUSE (java-11-openjdk), SUSE (dtc, ibsim, ibutils, ipvsadm, and kernel), and Ubuntu (awstats and glibc).
jeudi 13 mai 2021, 16:31
The kernel's BPF virtual machine allows programs loaded from user space to be safely run in the kernel's context. That functionality would be of limited use, however, without the ability for those programs to interact with the rest of the kernel. The interface between BPF...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (graphviz and redmine), Fedora (dom4j, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, mariadb, php, php-phpmailer6, and redis), openSUSE (kernel and nagios), and Ubuntu (mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0 and python-django).
The discoverer of the KRACK attacks against WPA2 encryption in WiFi is back with a new set of flaws in the wireless-networking protocols. FragAttacks is a sizable group of WiFi vulnerabilities that (ab)use the fragmentation and aggregation (thus 'Frag') features of the...
mercredi 12 mai 2021, 17:48
GNU Guix, the transactional package manager and distribution, has released version 1.3.0. This released adds new features, refines the user experience, and improves performance. Support for the POWER9 platform is now offered as technological preview.
Stable kernels 5.12.3 and 5.11.20 have been released with important fixes throughout the tree. Users should upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (composer, hivex, lz4, and rails), Fedora (chromium, community-mysql, djvulibre, dom4j, firefox, php, php-phpmailer6, python-django, and redis), Mageia (mariadb, nagios, and pngcheck), openSUSE (opera, syncthing, and vlc), SUSE...
Python in the browser has long been an item on the wish list of many in the Python community. At this point, though, JavaScript has well-cemented its role as the language embedded into the web and its browsers. The Pyodide project provides a way to run Python in the browser...
mardi 11 mai 2021, 23:39
Vice takes a look at the SleepyHead system for the management of CPAP machines. The free, open-source, and definitely not FDA-approved piece of software is the product of thousands of hours of hacking and development by a lone Australian developer named Mark Watkins, who...
The Microsoft Open Source Blog takes a look at implementing eBPF support in Windows. 'Although support for eBPF was first implemented in the Linux kernel, there has been increasing interest in allowing eBPF to be used on other operating systems and also to extend user-mode...
The coreboot firmware project has released version 4.14. 'These changes have been all over the place, so that there's no particular area to focus on when describing this release: We had improvements to mainboards, to chipsets (including much welcomed work to open source...
Stable kernels 5.10.36 and 5.4.118 have been released. They both contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users should upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (hivex), Fedora (djvulibre and thunderbird), openSUSE (monitoring-plugins-smart and perl-Image-ExifTool), Oracle (kernel and kernel-container), Red Hat (kernel and kpatch-patch), SUSE (drbd-utils, java-11-openjdk, and python3), and ...
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