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November 2, 2011 in Linux

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  1. LXer: Audacious 4.4.1 Released with Assorted Minor Improvements
    Published at LXer: Audacious 4.4.1 builds on the changes introduced in Audacious 4.4 (a release that brought GTK3 and Qt6 UI choices, the return of a dedicated lyrics plugin, and better compatibility …
  2. Unable to xrdp tunnel to my Fedora 40 session using ssh
    Hello, I’m not sure what happened but I’ve always been able to tunnel to my xrdp GUI using a ssh putty session. Now when I try to connect after connecting via SSH it just shows a blank screen with an …
  3. How Can I Set Up an Executable Script in Linux?
    I try to pre-process pdf files so that they load faster, and so they won’t crash kindles or tablets. In MacOS, I could use Automator to run a bash shell script. In Fedora w/ Cinnamon, I tried to use ” …
  4. eth0: [ERROR] Set device name: No such device
    I cannot change the MAC address in my Kali VM with this Python code: Quote: interface = input(“interface > “) new_mac = input(“new MAC > “) subprocess.call([“ifconfig”, interface, “down”]) subprocess. …
  5. LXer: Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver – Better Performance
    Published at LXer: While the Linux 6.12 merge window only ended this weekend and won’t be out until November, already code is beginning to accumulate for DRM-Next of graphics driver improvements targe …
  6. LXer: RISC-V-Based KVM Solution in PCIe Form Factor with Low/High Profile Compatibility
    Published at LXer: The NanoKVM-PCIe is a recent solution from Sipeed, designed to simplify remote management of ATX PC cases and 2U servers. Built on the RISC-V architecture, it offers low power consu …
  7. LXer: Firefox 132 Enters Beta with Support for Blocking Third-Party Cookie Access
    Published at LXer: With the Firefox 131 release rolling out today to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major version, Firefox 132, to the beta channel for public testing. Read More… …
  8. Ultrathin Keyboard Folio m1 connected but no typing
    Hello Gents, I wanted to connect my Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Folio m1 which worked OK in the past but now is not typing anything. The battery is freshly charged and connected. Removing/Adding the d …
  9. LXer: This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator
    Published at LXer: There are plenty of people who do not actually understand AI and open-source (or its licensing). But, they choose to jump on using those terms to market their products somehow super …
  10. LXer: Linux Candy: PyBonsai � generates procedural ASCII art trees
    Published at LXer: PyBonsai is a Python script that generates procedural ASCII art trees in the comfort of your terminal. This is free and open source software. Read More… …


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  1. Tumbleweed Monthly Update – May 2026
    May delivered a steady cadence of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots across the major desktop stacks with KDE Gear 26.04.1, KDE Frameworks 6.26.0, Plasma 6.6.5 and GNOME 50 minor releases. Mesa made a coup …
  2. Planet News Roundup
    This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog aggregates a list of the featured highlights below from May 22 to 27. Blogs this week cover …
  3. Managing System Extensions with sysextmgrcli
    Managing System Extensions on openSUSE MicroOS with sysextmgrcli If you are running openSUSE MicroOS, you already know the drill: the root filesystem is read-only, and transactional updates are the la …
  4. Planet News Roundup
    This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from May 8 to 14. Blogs this week cover …
  5. Planet News Roundup
    This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from May 1 to 7. Blogs this week cover a …
  6. Summit Draws Landmark Regional Gathering
    Three hundred twenty-one developers, students and technology professionals converged on Universidad Libre in Barranquilla, Colombia, for the first-ever openSUSE America Summit. It was a two-day event …
  7. Tumbleweed Monthly Update – April 2026
    There were several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed during April and the later half of the month brought some urgency with Copy Fail, which is now safe for users of the rolling release …
  8. openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Call for Speakers
    We are excited to announce that the Call for Speakers for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 is now open! This year, the Summit will take place on October 3–4, 2026, at the Teaching Industry Learning Center (T …
  9. Quantum-Resilient Cryptography in the openSUSE Ecosystem
    It is with great joy that I officially announce the release in the openSUSE family (Leap and Tumbleweed) of the new package focused on cryptography resistant to the post-quantum era. The libzupt libra …
  10. Planet News Roundup
    This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from April 17 to 23. Blogs this week cov …


  1. Duckstation ditches GPL for Creative Commons License
    https://github.com/stenzek/duckstati…master/LICENSE Quote: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International ======================================================================= Creative …


  1. New Feed for FWN
    Please update the feed for FWN to:
    http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/category/fedora-weekly-news/feed/
  2. Fedora Weekly News Issue 128
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 128 for the week of April 14th, 2008.http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue128In Announcements, we have “Please digg: Fedora stories”.In Planet Fedora, we have “FL …
  3. Fedora Weekly News Issue 127
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 127 for the week of April 7th, 2008.http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue127In Announcements, we have “Rawhide 20080404 Snapshot Released”, “Callfor Stories”, “An …
  4. Fedora Weekly News Issue 126
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 126 for the week of March 24th, 2008.http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue126In Announcements, we have “F9 Beta release announcement”, “Rawhide20080328 Snapshot”, …
  5. Fedora Weekly News Issue 125
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 125 for the week of March 17th, 2008.http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue125In Announcements, we have “Fedora 9 Beta slipped a few days”, “MichaelTiemann’s Speec …
  6. Fedora Weekly News Issue 124
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 124 for the week of March 10th, 2008.http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue124In Announcements, we have “Announcing the relaunch of the Fedora BugZappers!”In Plane …
  7. Fedora Weekly News Issue 123
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 123 for the week of March 3rd, 2008.http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue123In Planet Fedora, we have “Bonnie in Laurinburg”, “RSS feeds ofbugs!”, “Howto: Test th …
  8. Fedora Weekly News Issue 122
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 122 for the week of February 25th,2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue122In Announcements, we have “Fedora Board IRC meeting 2008-03-04”.In Fedora Marketin …
  9. Fedora Weekly News Issue 121
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 121 for the week of February 18th,2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue121In Announcements, we have “Fedora 10’s FUDCon”, “LWN subscription?”,”Fedora Amateu …
  10. Fedora Weekly News Issue 120
    Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 120 for the week of February 11th,2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue120In Announcements, we have “Announcing Fedora 8 Xfce Spin”In Planet Fedora, we have …


  1. Fedora 43 libpng Addresses Medium Severity Memory Bug CVE-2026-34757
    updated to 1.6.58 1.6.58 is released with a fix for a simple correctness bug (not a security issue) this time: png_get_PLTE() returns stale palette data when either gamma correction or alpha-compositi …
  2. Fedora 43 VIM Important Command Injection Fix Advisory 2026-75b5ddf8c3
    keep GTK4 in rawhide for now switch to GTK4 for GVim Fix CVE-2026-46483
  3. Fedora 43 perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication Key Timing Attack Patch
    Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication versions through 0.10024 for Perl is susceptible to timing attacks since these versions use Perl’s built-in eq comparison. Discrepencies in timing could be used to gue …
  4. Fedora 43 addresses severe remote code execution vulnerabilities in Unbound
    Update to 1.25.1 (rhbz#2480119) Fix CVE-2026-33278, Possible remote code execution during DNSSEC validation. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report. Fix CVE-2026-42944, Heap overflo …
  5. Fedora 43 Dovecot Suffering from Moderate DoS Info Disclosure Issues
    CVE-2026-27851: lib-var-expand: Safe filter marks all following pipelines safe. CVE-2026-33603: auth: CRAM-SHA-*-PLUS channel binding could be faked. MITM attacker with a certificate trusted by the cl …
  6. Fedora 43 Postfix Critical Buffer Over-read Fix Advisory 2026-e9fc21d7e2
    This is an update fixing CVE-2026-43964.
  7. Fedora 44 Samba 4.24.3 Security Update Remote Code Execution CVE-2026-7567
    Update to Samba 4.24.3 – Security fix for CVE-2026-4480, CVE-2026-2340, CVE-2026-3012, CVE-2026-1933, CVE-2026-4408, and CVE-2026-3238
  8. Fedora 44 FreeIPA Important Samba Remote Code Exec Fix 2026-7567819345
    Update to Samba 4.24.3 – Security fix for CVE-2026-4480, CVE-2026-2340, CVE-2026-3012, CVE-2026-1933, CVE-2026-4408, and CVE-2026-3238
  9. Fedora 44 hplip Critical Fix for Arbitrary Code Execution 2026-df2e96fe77
    Update to 3.26.4, fixes CVE-2026-8631, CVE-2026-8632
  10. Fedora 44 perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication Vulnerable to CVE-2026-5091
    Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication versions through 0.10024 for Perl is susceptible to timing attacks since these versions use Perl’s built-in eq comparison. Discrepencies in timing could be used to gue …


  1. Why Linux Rootkits Still Matter in Cloud and VMware Environments 
    Linux rootkits are old, but they never really disappeared. They just stopped attracting the same attention.
  2. SSH Key Sprawl on Linux Unmanaged Access Threats and Cleanup Guide
    A production Linux server gets rebuilt from an old image. A contractor leaves. A CI/CD job is retired. Months later, the same SSH public keys are still sitting in authorized_keys, silently trusted by …
  3. GitHub Actions Compromise CI/CD Supply Chain Risks Explored
    For years, most software supply chain attacks focused on malicious dependencies and vulnerable open-source packages. Recent GitHub Actions compromises exposed a different problem entirely. Attackers i …
  4. LinuxSecurity.com Major Update for Improved Threat Discovery and Research
    LinuxSecurity.com has been part of the Linux and open-source security community since the late 1990s. Over the years, the platform has evolved alongside the Linux threat landscape itself — from the ea …
  5. Linux Privilege Escalation Patterns and Mitigation Strategies
    Linux privilege escalation starts once an attacker gets a foothold on a machine. Maybe it is a regular user account. Maybe it is an exposed application that nobody patched, or a reused password from a …
  6. Linux Infrastructure Under Siege by FamousSparrow Espionage Campaign
    The recent FamousSparrow attacks reportedly relied on exposed web applications, ProxyLogon exploitation, and other well-known server-side vulnerabilities. 
  7. Microsoft Just Showed How Easily Trusted Software Pipelines Can Be Abused
    Microsoft announced this week that it disrupted a malware-signing operation that helped cybercriminals distribute ransomware disguised as legitimate software. According to the company, a threat actor …
  8. Linux Server Hardening Guide for Secure System Management
    Linux server hardening is mostly about reducing unnecessary exposure while keeping systems stable enough to manage in production. That sounds straightforward until servers start accumulating changes o …
  9. Linux Server Advisory Unused Kernel Modules Threats CVE-2026-31431
    Your Linux server may be carrying kernel code for hardware, filesystems, cryptographic interfaces, and network features it will never use.
  10. Detecting Systemd Abuse on Linux Servers for Better Security
    A Linux process that keeps coming back after a reboot is worth slowing down for. It may not crash anything. The name may look like normal maintenance, the server may keep serving traffic, and nothing …


  1. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Little CMS Critical Denial Of Service CVE-2026-41254
    Little CMS could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted ICC profile. …
  2. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux Kernel Important Packet Socket Risk USN-8361-1

    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Kernel Packet Socket Issue

    The system could be compromised under certain conditions.
  3. Ubuntu 25.10 NNCP Important File Access Threat USN-8359-1

    Ubuntu NNCP important file access security advisory information.

    NNCP could allow unintended access to files.
  4. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS haveged Critical Exec Privilege Escalation USN-8358-1

    Ubuntu 26.04 LTS privilege escalation vulnerability

    haveged could be made to run programs as an administrator.
  5. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sslh Important File Overwrite Security Advisory USN-8360-1

    Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sslh security advisory image

    sslh could be made to overwrite files.
  6. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sssd Important Denial of Service Vuln 2026-6245
    SSSD could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input. …
  7. Ubuntu 26.04 Exim Critical Information Disclosure Vulnerability USN-8353-1
    Exim could be made to expose sensitive information over the network. …
  8. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS gsasl Important DoS Crash Advisory USN-8356-1
    GNU SASL could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input. …
  9. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Nginx Serious DoS Remote Attack Vulnerabilities USN-8354-1

    Fixing Ubuntu Nginx DoS vulnerabilities USN-8354-1

    Several security issues were fixed in nginx.