Netatalk, a server that implements the AppleTalk and Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) network protocols, has six remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that allow you to organize the execution of your code as root by sending specially crafted packets. Netatalk is used by many manufacturers of storage devices (NAS) to provide file sharing and printer access from Apple computers, for example, used in […]
The Rocky Linux 8.7 distribution has been released, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of the classic CentOS, after Red Hat stopped supporting the CentOS 8 branch ahead of schedule at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, as originally intended. This is the third stable release of the project, recognized as ready for production deployments. Rocky Linux builds prepared […]
The release of the distribution kit "Alt Workstation K 10.1", supplied with a graphical environment based on KDE Plasma, has been published. Boot and live images prepared for x86_64 architecture (6.1 GB, 4.3 GB). The operating system is included in the Unified Register of Russian Programs and will satisfy the requirements for the transition to infrastructure running domestic operating systems. Russian root encryption certificates are integrated into the main structure. Like […]
Two vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the GRUB2 bootloader that could lead to code execution when using specially designed fonts and handling certain Unicode sequences. Vulnerabilities can be used to bypass the UEFI Secure Boot verified boot mechanism. Known vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-2601 - Buffer overflow in the grub_font_construct_glyph() function when processing specially designed fonts in pf2 format, which occurs due to incorrect […]
Two and a half years after the publication of the last release, the BackBox Linux 8 distribution is available, based on Ubuntu 22.04 and comes with a collection of tools for system security checks, exploit testing, reverse engineering, network traffic and wireless network analysis, malware research, stress -testing, revealing hidden or lost data. The user environment is based on Xfce. ISO image size 3.9 […]
Canonical announced that they are preparing separate builds of Ubuntu Desktop (20.04 and 22.04), Ubuntu Server (20.04 and 22.04) and Ubuntu Core (20 and 22) that ship with the Linux 5.15 kernel and are specifically optimized for SoC and Internet of Things (IoT) devices with 10, 11 and 12 generation Intel Core and Atom processors (Alder Lake, Tiger Lake […]
The KDE Akademy 2022 conference set new goals for the KDE project, which will be given increased attention during development in the next 2-3 years. The targets are selected based on a community vote. Past goals were set in 2019 and included implementing Wayland support, unifying apps, and tidying up app distribution tools. New goals: Accessibility for […]
Facebook (banned in Russia) has published the Sapling source code management system used in the development of the company's internal projects. The system aims to provide a familiar versioning interface that can scale to very large repositories spanning tens of millions of files, commits and branches. The client code is written in Python and Rust, and is open under the GPLv2 license. Separately developed server part […]
The EuroLinux 8.7 distribution has been released, prepared by rebuilding the source texts of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 distribution packages and fully binary compatible with it. The changes come down to rebranding and removal of RHEL-specific packages, otherwise the distribution is completely similar to RHEL 8.7. Installation images are prepared for download, 12 GB (appstream) and 1.7 GB in size. The distribution is […]
Published the 60th edition of the ranking of the 500 most high-performance computers in the world. In the new edition, there is only one change in the top ten - the 4th place was taken by the Leonardo cluster, located in the Italian research center CINECA. The cluster includes almost 1.5 million processor cores (CPU Xeon Platinum 8358 32C 2.6GHz) and provides a performance of 255.75 petaflops with a power consumption of 5610 kilowatts. Troika […]
The release of the free BlueZ 5.47 Bluetooth stack used in Linux and Chrome OS distributions has taken place. The release is notable for the initial implementation of the BAP (Basic Audio Profile), which is part of the LE Audio (Low Energy Audio) standard and defines the capabilities to control the delivery of audio streams for devices using Bluetooth LE (Low Energy). Supports receiving and transmitting audio in conventional and broadcast […]
The Firefox 107 web browser has been released. In addition, an update to the long-term support branch, 102.5.0, has been formed. The Firefox 108 branch, which is scheduled for release on December 13, will soon be transferred to the beta testing stage. Major new features in Firefox 107: The profiling interface (Performance tab in developer tools) adds the ability to analyze power usage on […]
