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X.org vulnerability and releases

The X.Org project has announced a vulnerability in its X server and Xwayland (CVE-2023-1393). This issue can lead to local privileges elevation on systems where the X server is running privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding sessions. [...] If a client explicitly destroys the compositor overlay window (aka COW), the Xserver would leave a da […]

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[$] The trouble with MODULE_LICENSE() in non-modules

The kernel's hierarchical maintainer model works quite well from the standpoint of allowing thousands of developers to work together without (often) stepping on each others' toes. But that model can also make life painful for developers who are trying to make changes across numerous subsystems. Other possible source of pain include changes related […]

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Stable kernels 6.2.9, 6.1.22, 5.15.105, and 5.4.239

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.2.9, 6.1.22, 5.15.105, and 5.4.239 stable kernels. The latter (5.4.239) has single patch to fix the permissions of a selftest file, while the other three have a lengthy list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.

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Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server and xrdp), Fedora (mingw-python-certifi, mingw-python3, mingw-zstd, moodle, python-cairosvg, python-markdown-it-py, redis, xorg-x11-server, and yarnpkg), Slackware (mozilla and xorg), SUSE (grub2, ldb, samba, libmicrohttpd, python-Werkzeug, rubygem-rack, samba, sudo, testng, tomcat, webkit2gtk3, xorg-x […]

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 30, 2023

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 30, 2023 is available.

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[$] Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

The fourth and final keynote for Everything Open 2023 was given by Professor Rebecca Giblin of the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. It revolved around her recent book, Chokepoint Capitalism, which she wrote with Cory Doctorow; it is "a book about why creative labor markets are rigged — and how to unrig them". Giblin had planned to be […]

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[$] OpenSUSE MicroOS Desktop: a Flatpak-based immutable distribution

Immutable Linux distributions are on the rise recently, with multiple popular distributions creating their own immutable versions; it could be one of the trends of 2023, as predicted. While many of these immutable distributions are focused on server use, there are also some that offer a desktop experience. OpenSUSE MicroOS Desktop is one of them, with a mini […]

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Stenberg: Pre-notification dilemmas

Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg expresses some frustrations with the vulnerability notification policies maintained by the distros mailing list. The week before we were about to ship the curl 8.0.0 release, I emailed the distros mailing list again like I have done so many times before and told them about the upcoming six(!) vulnerabilities we were about to r […]

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Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (unbound and xorg-server), Fedora (stellarium), Oracle (kernel), SUSE (apache2, oracleasm, python-Werkzeug, rubygem-loofah, sudo, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (git, kernel, and linux-hwe-5.19).

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[$] Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default

Canonical recently announced that it will no longer ship Flatpak as part of its default installation for the various official Ubuntu flavors, which is in keeping with the practices of the core Ubuntu distribution. The Flatpak package format has gained popularity among Linux users for its convenience and ease of use. Canonical will focus exclusively on its ow […]

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