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mardi 16 avril 2024, 18:00
Fedora 40 Beta was released on March 26, and the final release is nearing completion. So far, the release is coming together nicely with major updates for GNOME, KDE Plasma, and the usual cavalcade of smaller updates and enhancements. As part of the release, the project also...
Version 0.81 of the PuTTY SSH client is out with a fix for CVE-2024-31497; some users will want to update and generate new keys: PuTTY 0.81, released today, fixes a critical vulnerability CVE-2024-31497 in the use of 521-bit ECDSA keys (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521). If you have...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (php7.4 and php8.2), Fedora (c-ares), Mageia (python-pillow and upx), Oracle (bind and dhcp, bind9.16, httpd:2.4/mod_http2, kernel, rear, and unbound), SUSE (eclipse, maven-surefire, tycho, emacs, kubevirt, virt-api-container,...
lundi 15 avril 2024, 18:48
The Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation have jointly posted a warning about XZ-like social-engineering attacks after OpenJS was seemingly targeted. The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar...
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi has been working to add support for exceptions to BPF since mid-2023. In July, Dwivedi posted the first patch set in this effort, which adds support for basic stack unwinding. In February 2024, he posted the second patch set aimed at letting the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind and dhcp, bind9.16, gnutls, httpd:2.4/mod_http2, squid:4, and unbound), Debian (kernel, trafficserver, and xorg-server), Fedora (chromium, kernel, libopenmpt, and rust-h2), Mageia (apache-mod_jk, golang, indent,...
dimanche 14 avril 2024, 23:18
The 6.9-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'Nothing particularly unusual going on this week - some new hw mitigations may stand out, but after a decade of this I can't really call it 'unusual' any more, can I?'
samedi 13 avril 2024, 23:30
The 6.8.6, 6.6.27, 6.1.86, 5.15.155, 5.10.215, 5.4.274, and 4.19.312 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains a relatively large number of important fixes.
vendredi 12 avril 2024, 16:29
The kernel project merges dozens of drivers with every development cycle, and almost every one of those drivers is entirely uncontroversial. Occasionally, though, a driver submission raises wider questions, leading to lengthy discussion and, perhaps, opposition. That is...
Dirk Mueller has posted a lengthy analysis of the XZ backdoor on the openSUSE News site, with a focus on openSUSE's response. Debian, as well as the other affected distributions like openSUSE are carrying a significant amount of downstream-only patches to essential...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (rust, trafficserver, and upx), Mageia (postgresql-jdbc and x11-server, x11-server-xwayland, tigervnc), Red Hat (bind, bind9.16, gnutls, httpd:2.4, squid, unbound, and xorg-x11-server), SUSE (perl-Net-CIDR-Lite), ...
jeudi 11 avril 2024, 16:26
The Earliest Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) scheduler was merged as an option for the 6.6 kernel. It represents a major change to how CPU scheduling is done on Linux systems, but the EEVDF front has been relatively quiet since then. Now, though, scheduler developer Peter...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, less, libreoffice, nodejs:18, nodejs:20, rear, thunderbird, and varnish), Debian (pillow), Fedora (dotnet7.0), SUSE (sngrep, texlive-specs-k, tomcat, tomcat10, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (nss, squid, and...
mercredi 10 avril 2024, 21:10
The Gentoo Linux project has announced that it is now an Associated Project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI), which will allow it to accept tax deductible donations in the US and reduce its 'non-technical workload': The current Gentoo Foundation has bylaws...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced another round of stable kernel updates: 6.8.5, 6.6.26, 6.1.85, and 5.15.154 have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes, including the mitigations for the recently disclosed branch history injection hardware...
A recent book by LWN guest author Lee Phillips provides a nice introduction to the Julia programming language. Practical Julia does more than that, however. As its subtitle ('A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds') implies, the book focuses on bringing Julia to...
On April 3 security researcher Bartek Nowotarski published the details of a new denial-of-service (DoS) attack, called a 'continuation flood', against many HTTP/2-capable web servers. While the attack is not terribly complex, it affects many independent implementations of...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gtkwave), Fedora (dotnet7.0, dotnet8.0, and python-pillow), Mageia (apache, gstreamer1.0, libreoffice, perl-Data-UUID, and xen), Oracle (kernel, kernel-container, and varnish), Red Hat (edk2, kernel, rear, and unbound), SUSE...
mardi 9 avril 2024, 21:22
The mainline kernel has just received a set of commits mitigating the latest x86 hardware vulnerability, known as 'branch history injection'. From this commit: Branch History Injection (BHI) attacks may allow a malicious application to influence indirect branch prediction...
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