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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, man-db, and openjdk-17), Fedora (chromium, indent, jupyterlab, kernel,...
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[$] The hard life of a virtual-filesystem developer
Filesystem development is not an easy task; the performance demands are typically high, and the consequences...
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Damn Small Linux 2024 released [LWN.net]
A new version of the Damn Small Linux distribution has come out with an updated definition...
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Stable kernels 6.7.3, 6.6.15, and 6.1.76 [LWN.net]
The 6.7.3, 6.6.15, and 6.1.76 stable kernels have been released. These contain a large number of...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-security-support, firefox-esr, openjdk-11, and python-asyncssh), Fedora (glibc, python-templated-dictionary, thunderbird,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 1, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 1, 2024 is available.
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GNU C Library 2.39 released [LWN.net]
Version 2.39 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include integration with the x86...
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LibreOffice 24.2 Community released [LWN.net]
Version 24.2 of the LibreOffice office suite is available. Changes include AutoRecovery enabled by default, styling...
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[$] OpenBSD system-call pinning
Return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks are hard to defend against. Partial mitigations such as address-space layout randomization,...
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A locally exploitable glibc vulnerability [LWN.net]
Qualys has disclosed a vulnerability in the GNU C Library that can be exploited by a...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9 and glibc), Fedora (ncurses), Gentoo (containerd, libaom, and...
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[$] Looking ahead to Emacs 30
EmacsConf 2023 was, like its recent predecessors, an online conference with lots of talks about various aspects...
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The state of eBPF [LWN.net]
The eBPF Foundation has published a glossy document called The State of eBPF; it seems mostly...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pillow, postfix, and redis), Fedora (python-templated-dictionary and selinux-policy), Red...
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[$] Defining the Rust 2024 edition
In December, the Rust project released a call for proposals for inclusion in the 2024 edition....
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, LibRaw, python-pillow, and xorg-x11-server), Debian...
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Kernel prepatch 6.8-rc2 [LWN.net]
Linus has released 6.8-rc2 for testing. "So go out and test. It's safe now. You trust...
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[$] Better handling of integer wraparound in the kernel
While the mathematical realm of numbers is infinite, computers are only able to represent a finite...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server), Fedora (chromium, dotnet8.0, firefox, freeipa, and thunderbird), Red...
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Seven new stable kernels [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.2, 6.6.14, 6.1.75, 5.15.148, 5.10.209, 5.4.268, and 4.19.306...
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[$] The things nobody wants to pay for
The free-software community has managed to build a body of software that is worth, by most...
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GCC security features from AdaCore [LWN.net]
The AdaCore blog describes some hardening features contributed to GCC for the GCC 14 release. With -fharden-control-flow-redundancy,...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, php-phpseclib, phpseclib, thunderbird, and zabbix), Fedora (dotnet7.0,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 25, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 25, 2024 is available.