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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.

Vulnerability in the Enlightenment user environment allowing root privileges

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A vulnerability (CVE-2022-37706) has been discovered in the Enlightenment user environment, allowing a non-privileged local user to execute code with root privileges. This vulnerability is currently unpatched (0-day), but there is already an exploit available online, tested on Ubuntu 22.04. The issue exists in the enlightenment_sys executable, which is distributed with the suid root flag and executes certain permitted commands through the system() call, such as mounting storage […]

Release of EndeavourOS 22.9

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The EndeavourOS 22.9 release is available, succeeding the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to a lack of free time among the remaining maintainers to support the project adequately. The installation image size is 1.9 GB (x86_64, with a separate build being developed for ARM). This new release includes updated package versions, featuring Linux kernel 5.19.7, […]

Firefox Relay will introduce a phone number replacement feature

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Mozilla is working on expanding the Firefox Relay service, which allows users to generate temporary email addresses for registering on websites or subscribing to services, so they do not have to disclose their real address. Currently, a review is underway for a change that implements similar functionality for phone numbers. Firefox Relay will enable users to generate temporary phone numbers to hide their actual number during registration […]

Vulnerabilities in the Cargo package manager used for Rust projects

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Two vulnerabilities have been identified in the Cargo package manager, used for package management and building projects in Rust. These vulnerabilities may be exploited when loading specially crafted packages from third-party repositories (it is claimed that users of the official crates.io repository are not affected). The first vulnerability (CVE-2022-36113) allows overwriting the first two bytes of any file, subject to current access permissions. […]

Dynamic retrieval of debugging information has been implemented in Ubuntu.

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The developers of the Ubuntu distribution have introduced the debuginfod.ubuntu.com service, allowing users to debug programs included in the distribution without installing separate debug information packages from the debuginfo repository. With this new service, users can dynamically download debug symbols from an external server during debugging. This feature is supported starting from GDB 10 and Binutils 2.34. Debug information […]

The completely revamped Arduino IDE 2.0 development environment is now available

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After three years of alpha and beta testing, the Arduino community, which develops a series of open-source boards based on microcontrollers, has released the stable version of the Arduino IDE 2.0 integrated development environment. This IDE provides an interface for writing code, compiling, uploading firmware to hardware, and interacting with boards during debugging. Firmware is developed in a specially created programming language similar to C, allowing for rapid development […]

Release of Samba 4.17.0

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The release of Samba 4.17.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a complete implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2008 implementation and capable of servicing all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides file server, printing service, and identification server (winbind) implementations. Key changes […]

The server-side Linux distribution SME Server 10.1 is now available.

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The release of the server-oriented Linux distribution SME Server 10.1 has been announced, built on the package base of CentOS 7 and designed for use in the server infrastructure of small and medium businesses. A key feature of the distribution is the presence of pre-configured standard components, fully ready to operate and configurable through a web interface. Among such components are a mail server with spam filtering, a web server, and a print server, […]

Release of Polemarch 2.0, a web interface for Ansible.

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The release of Polemarch 2.0.0, a web interface for managing server infrastructure based on Ansible, has taken place. The project code is written in Python and JavaScript using the Django and Celery frameworks. The project is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. To run the system, it is sufficient to install the package and launch 1 service. For industrial use, it is additionally recommended to use MySQL/PostgreSQL and Redis/RabbitMQ+Redis (cache and MQ broker). For […]

The Fedora Linux 37 distribution has entered beta testing phase.

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Testing of the beta version of the Fedora Linux 37 distribution has begun. The beta release marks the transition to the final testing stage, during which only critical errors are allowed to be corrected. The release is scheduled for October 18. The release covers Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, and Live images provided in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, […]

A cross-platform web browser, Ladybird, has been introduced.

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The developers of the SerenityOS operating system have introduced Ladybird, a cross-platform web browser based on the LibWeb engine and the LibJS JavaScript interpreter, which have been under development by the project since 2019. The graphical interface is based on the Qt library. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. It supports operation on Linux, macOS, Windows (WSL), and Android. The interface is designed in a classic style and supports tabs. […]

WD is developing an NVMe driver in Rust. Experiments with Rust in FreeBSD

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At the ongoing Linux Plumbers Conference 2022, an engineer from Western Digital presented a report on the development of an experimental driver for SSDs with the NVM-Express (NVMe) interface, written in Rust and operating at the Linux kernel level. Although the project is still in its early stages, testing has shown that the performance of the NVMe driver is […]

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