The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 21.04.27/86/64, built on the basis of FreeBSD and offering the MATE user environment, is available. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC init system and the ZFS file system. It supports both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for x2.5_XNUMX architecture (XNUMX GB). IN […]
The release of the QEMU 6.0 project is presented. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program built for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, run an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In the virtualization mode in QEMU, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to a hardware system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and […]
Research laboratory 360 Netlab reported the identification of new malware for Linux, codenamed RotaJakiro and including the implementation of a backdoor that allows you to control the system. The malware could have been installed by attackers after exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in the system or guessing weak passwords. The backdoor was discovered during the analysis of suspicious traffic from one of the system processes identified during […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4 has been published, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of acting as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation iso image is 928 MB. Proxmox VE provides the tools to deploy a complete virtualization […]
Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 6.1.22 virtualization system, which contains 5 fixes. Main changes: In additions for guest systems with Linux, problems with launching executable files located on mounted shared partitions have been resolved. The virtual machine manager has improved the performance of running 64-bit Windows and Solaris guests when using the Hyper-V hypervisor on host systems […]
GitHub has published policy changes that outline policies regarding the posting of exploits and malware research, as well as compliance with the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The changes are still in draft status, available for discussion within 30 days. The DMCA compliance rules, in addition to the previously present prohibition of distribution and provision of installation or […]
Facebook has become a Platinum member of the Rust Foundation, which oversees the Rust language ecosystem, supports core development and decision-making maintainers, and is responsible for organizing funding for the project. Platinum members receive the right to serve as a company representative on the board of directors. Facebook's representative was Joel Marcey, who joined […]
The console text editor GNU nano 5.7 has been released, offered as the default editor in many user distributions whose developers find vim too difficult to master. The new release improves output stability when using the --constantshow option (without "--minibar"), which is responsible for showing the cursor position in the status bar. In softwrap mode, the position and size of the indicator correspond […]
Corrective releases of the Samba package 4.14.4, 4.13.8 and 4.12.15 have been prepared to eliminate the vulnerability (CVE-2021-20254), which in most cases can lead to the crash of the smbd process, but in the worst case scenario the possibility of unauthorized access to files and deleting files on a network partition by an unprivileged user. The vulnerability is caused by an error in the sids_to_unixids() function, resulting in data being read from an area behind […]
Corrective updates have been published for the stable branches of the BIND DNS server 9.11.31 and 9.16.15, as well as the experimental branch 9.17.12, which is in development. The new releases address three vulnerabilities, one of which (CVE-2021-25216) causes a buffer overflow. On 32-bit systems, the vulnerability can be exploited to remotely execute an attacker's code by sending a specially crafted GSS-TSIG request. On 64 systems the problem is limited to a crash […]
Following an open letter of apology, a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota, whose acceptance of changes to the Linux kernel was blocked by Greg Croah-Hartman, revealed detailed information about the patches sent to the kernel developers and the correspondence with the maintainers related to these patches. It is noteworthy that all of the problematic patches were rejected at the initiative of the maintainers; none of the patches were […]
A release candidate for the openSUSE Leap 15.3 distribution has been proposed for testing, based on a basic set of packages for the SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution with some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD build of 4.3 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x) is available for download. openSUSE Leap 15.3 is scheduled for release on June 2, 2021. Unlike previous releases [...]
