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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.

Vulnerabilities in Realtek SDK have led to issues in devices from 65 manufacturers.

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Four vulnerabilities have been identified in the Realtek SDK components, which are used by various wireless device manufacturers in their firmware. These vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code on devices with elevated privileges. Preliminary estimates indicate that the issues affect at least 200 device models from 65 different vendors, including various models of wireless routers from Asus, A-Link, Beeline, Belkin, Buffalo, D-Link, Edison, Huawei, LG, […]

Release of Git source control system 2.33

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After two months of development, the release of the distributed source control system Git 2.33 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible means of nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to 'backdating' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, […]

Firefox 91.0.1 update. Plans for mandatory inclusion of WebRender

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A patch release of Firefox 91.0.1 is now available, which includes several fixes: A vulnerability (CVE-2021-29991) has been corrected, allowing for an HTTP header split attack. This issue was caused by incorrect acceptance of newline characters in HTTP/3 headers, enabling the specification of a header that would be interpreted as two different headers. A problem with button size changes in the tab bar, occurring when loading certain websites, has been fixed, […]

Vulnerability in Glibc allows crashing of another process

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A vulnerability has been identified in Glibc (CVE-2021-38604) that allows for the crashing of system processes through the sending of specially formatted messages via the POSIX message queues API. This issue has not yet manifested in distributions, as it only appears in the release 2.34, published two weeks ago. The problem is caused by incorrect handling of NOTIFY_REMOVED data in the mq_notify.c code, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and crash […]

Candidate for Slackware 15 release published

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Patrick Volkerding has announced the start of testing for the release candidate of Slackware 15.0, marking the freeze of most packages prior to release and focusing developers' attention on fixing bugs that block the release. An installation image has been prepared for download, sized at 3.1 GB (x86_64), as well as a slimmed-down build for running in Live mode. Slackware has been evolving since 1993 and is the oldest […]

Release of Apache OpenMeetings 6.1 web conference server

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The Apache Software Foundation has released the web conferencing server Apache OpenMeetings 6.1, allowing for audio and video conferencing over the Web, as well as collaboration and messaging among participants. It supports both webinars with a single presenter and conferences with an arbitrary number of participants interacting simultaneously. The project's code is written in Java and is distributed under […]

Release of the Midnight Commander file manager 4.8.27

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After eight months of development, the release of the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.27 has been published, distributed in source code under the GPLv3+ license. The main changes include: a new option in the file search dialog ('Find File') to follow symbolic links ('Follow symlinks'). The minimum versions of the components required for building have been increased: Autoconf 2.64, Automake 1.12, Gettext 0.18.2, and libssh2 1.2.8. The time required for […]

The Debian project has released a distribution for schools — Debian-Edu 11.

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The release of the Debian Edu 11 distribution, designed for use in educational institutions and also known as Skolelinux, has been prepared. This distribution includes an integrated set of tools for quick deployment in schools, both for servers and workstations, supporting both stationary setups in computer labs and portable systems. Installation images of size 438 are available for download […]

Release of Debian 11 'Bullseye'

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After two years of development, the release of Debian GNU/Linux 11.0 (Bullseye) has occurred, available for nine officially supported architectures: Intel IA-32/x86 (i686), AMD64/x86-64, ARM EABI (armel), 64-bit ARM (arm64), ARMv7 (armhf), mipsel, mips64el, PowerPC 64 (ppc64el), and IBM System z (s390x). Updates for Debian 11 will be released for a period of 5 years. Installation images are available for download […]

Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 is now available.

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The release of the Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 distribution has been presented, combining the Debian software environment with the GNU/Hurd kernel. The Debian GNU/Hurd repository includes about 70% of the packages from the total size of the Debian archive, including ported versions of Firefox and Xfce. Debian GNU/Hurd remains the only actively developed Debian platform based on a kernel different from Linux (previously, a port to Debian GNU/KFreeBSD was developed, but it has long been […]

Wine 6.15 Release

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The experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.15 — has been released. Since the release of version 6.14, 49 bug reports have been closed and 390 changes made. The most significant changes include: The WinSock (WS2_32) library has been converted to PE (Portable Executable) format. Performance-related counters (HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA) have been implemented in the registry. New thunk converters for 32-bit system calls have been added to NTDLL […]

GitHub bans password authentication for Git access

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In accordance with the previously scheduled plan, GitHub will discontinue support for connecting to Git objects using password authentication. This change will take effect today at 7 PM (MSK), after which direct execution of Git operations requiring authentication will only be possible using SSH keys or tokens (personal GitHub tokens or OAuth). An exception is made only for accounts using two-factor authentication, which […]

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