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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of the iptables 1.8.10 packet filter

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The release of the classic toolkit for managing the iptables packet filter 1.8.10 has been published, with recent development focusing on components for maintaining backward compatibility — iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, which provide utilities with the same command line syntax as in iptables and ebtables but translate the received rules into nftables bytecode. The original set of iptables programs, including ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables, is […]

Firefox update 118.0.2

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A corrective release of Firefox 118.0.2 is available, which includes the following fixes: Resolved issues with loading games from the betsoft.com site. Fixed problems with printing certain SVG images. Addressed a regression in branch 118 that caused the handling of 'WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate' responses from other sites to fail. Corrected an error that prevented WebRTC from decoding in some contexts […]

Vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol exploited in the largest DDoS attack.

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Google has recorded the largest DDoS attack on its infrastructure, with an intensity of 398 million requests per second. This new attack is seven times more intense than the previous record DDoS attack, which generated a flow of 47 million requests per second. For comparison, total traffic across the entire web is estimated to be 1-3 billion requests per second. In addition to […]

Google has rewritten the pvmfm firmware used in Android in Rust.

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As part of efforts to enhance the security of critical software components on the Android platform, Google has rewritten the pvmfm firmware used for running virtual machines managed by the pVM hypervisor within the Android Virtualization Framework in Rust. Previously, the firmware was written in C and implemented on top of the U-Boot bootloader, which had previously been found to have vulnerabilities due to issues with […]

The composite server Wayfire 0.8, utilizing Wayland, is now available.

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After nearly three years of development, the release of the Wayfire 0.8 compositing server has been announced. Utilizing Wayland, it allows for resource-friendly user interfaces with 3D effects similar to 3D plugins for Compiz (screen switching via a 3D cube, spatial window layouts, morphing effects when interacting with windows, etc.). Wayfire supports plugin extensions and offers a flexible configuration system. The project's code is written […]

Ubuntu will restrict access to user namespace

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Canonical has announced changes in Ubuntu 23.10 that restrict user access to user namespace identifiers, which will enhance the security of systems using container isolation against vulnerabilities that require manipulation of the user namespace for exploitation. According to Google, 44% of exploits involved in the bounty program for identifying vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, […]

A vulnerability in libcue that leads to code execution when loading files in GNOME

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A vulnerability (CVE-2023-43641) has been discovered in the libcue library, which is used for parsing metadata containing information about the order and duration of audio tracks, allowing for code execution when processing specially crafted cue files. The library is used in some multimedia players and audio editors, including Audacious, and can be exploited to compromise the system when opening unverified data. Furthermore, the libcue library […]

Ardour 8.0

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A major update of the free digital audio workstation Ardour has been released. Key changes: The MIDI track widget (scroomer) has been completely rewritten to control the scale and visibility of track content. It now displays notes (048 C, 049 C#, and so on), or note names if specified in MIDNAM (for example, names of different drums when a drum sampler plugin is loaded). A familiar interface for editing strength […]

New version of POP3 and IMAP4 server Dovecot 2.3.21

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A new version of the cross-platform high-performance POP3/IMAP4 server Dovecot 2.3.21 has been released, supporting the POP3 and IMAP4rev1 protocols along with popular extensions such as SORT, THREAD, and IDLE, as well as authentication and encryption mechanisms (SASL, TLS, SCRAM). Dovecot maintains full compatibility with traditional mbox and Maildir, utilizing external indexes to enhance performance. Plugins can be used to extend functionality (for example, through plugins it implements […]

Release of media player VLC 3.0.19

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Version 3.0.19 of the VLC media player has been released, featuring support for the Super Resolution technology on systems with Intel and NVIDIA GPUs. This technology utilizes spatial scaling algorithms and detail reconstruction to reduce image quality loss when scaling up and displaying at higher resolutions. Other improvements include enhanced support for AV1 video format and better HDR video handling […]

Changes proposed for GNOME aim to discontinue support for X11

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Jordan Petridis, a member of the quality control and release teams for GNOME, published a change request to remove systemd targets for gnome-session from packages, which will affect environments running X11. This marks a significant initial step towards phasing out support for the X11 protocol in GNOME. However, other necessary functionalities for […]

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