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Vulnerability in Rust Standard Library

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A vulnerability (CVE-2022-21658) has been identified in the Rust standard library due to a race condition in the std::fs::remove_dir_all() function. If this function is used to delete temporary files in a privileged application, an attacker can achieve the deletion of arbitrary system files and directories that the attacker would not normally have access to delete. The vulnerability is caused by incorrect implementation of checking symbolic links before recursive […]

SUSE develops its own replacement for CentOS 8 compatible with RHEL 8.5

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Additional details have emerged about the SUSE Liberty Linux project, which was announced this morning by SUSE without technical details. It turned out that within the framework of the project, a new edition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 distribution was prepared, assembled using the Open Build Service platform and suitable for use instead of the classic CentOS 8, support for which was discontinued at the end of 2021. Supposed, […]

Qt Company introduced a platform for embedding ads in Qt applications

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The Qt Company has published the first release of the Qt Digital Advertising platform to simplify the monetization of application development based on the Qt library. The platform provides a cross-platform Qt module with the same name with a QML API for embedding advertising into the application interface and organizing its delivery, similar to inserting advertising blocks into mobile applications. The interface to simplify the insertion of advertising blocks is designed in the form of [...]

SUSE Liberty Linux initiative to unify support for SUSE, openSUSE, RHEL and CentOS

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SUSE introduced the SUSE Liberty Linux project, aimed at providing a single service for supporting and managing mixed infrastructures that, in addition to SUSE Linux and openSUSE, use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS distributions. The initiative implies: Providing unified technical support, which allows you not to contact the manufacturer of each distribution used separately and solve all problems through one service. […]

Sourcegraph added search for Fedora repositories

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The Sourcegraph search engine, aimed at indexing publicly available source code, has been enhanced with the ability to search and navigate the source code of all packages distributed through the Fedora Linux repository, in addition to previously providing search for GitHub and GitLab projects. More than 34.5 thousand source packages from Fedora have been indexed. Flexible means of sampling are provided with [...]

Lighttpd http server release 1.4.64

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The lightweight http server lighttpd 1.4.64 has been released. The new version introduces 95 changes, including previously planned changes to default values ​​and a cleanup of outdated functionality: The default timeout for graceful restart/shutdown operations has been reduced from infinity to 8 seconds. The timeout can be configured using the "server.graceful-shutdown-timeout" option. A transition has been made to using an assembly with the library [...]

Chrome update 97.0.4692.99 fixes critical vulnerability

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Google has released Chrome updates 97.0.4692.99 and 96.0.4664.174 (Extended Stable), which fix 26 vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-0289), which allows you to bypass all levels of browser protection and execute code on the system outside the sandbox -environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, it is only known that the critical vulnerability is associated with accessing already freed memory (use-after-free) in the implementation of the […]

Release of AlphaPlot, scientific plotting software

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The release of AlphaPlot 1.02 has been published, providing a graphical interface for the analysis and visualization of scientific data. Development of the project began in 2016 as a fork of SciDAVis 1.D009, which in turn is a fork of QtiPlot 0.9rc-2. During the development process, a migration was carried out from the QWT library to QCustomplot. The code is written in C++, uses the Qt library and is distributed under the […]

Stable release of Wine 7.0

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After a year of development and 30 experimental versions, a stable release of the open implementation of the Win32 API was presented - Wine 7.0, which incorporated more than 9100 changes. The key achievements of the new version include the translation of most Wine modules into PE format, support for themes, expansion of the stack for joysticks and input devices with an HID interface, implementation of the WoW64 architecture for […]

DWM 6.3

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Quietly and unnoticed at Christmas 2022, a corrective version of the lightweight tile-based window manager for X11 from the suckless team was released - DWM 6.3. In the new version: memory leak in drw has been fixed; improved speed of drawing long lines in drw_text; fixed calculation of x coordinate in the button click handler; Fixed full screen mode (focusstack()); other minor fixes. Window Manager […]

Clonezilla Live 2.8.1-12

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Clonezilla is a live system designed for cloning disks and individual hard drive partitions, as well as creating backups and disaster recovery of the system. In this version: The underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been updated. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of January 03, 2022). The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.15.5-2. Updated language files for […]

Linux Mint 20.3 Una

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Linux Mint 20.3 is a long-term support release that will be supported until 2025. The release was carried out in three editions: Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon; Linux Mint 20.3 "Una" MATE; Linux Mint 20.3 "Una" Xfce. System requirements: 2 GiB RAM (4 GiB recommended); 20 GB of disk space (100 GB recommended); screen resolution 1024x768. Part […]

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