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A local vulnerability allowing root access has been fixed in OpenBSD

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The OpenBSD project has published a patch for the vulnerability (CVE-2026-57589) in the kernel, affecting the implementation of system calls for working with System V semaphores (sem). The issue is caused by accessing already freed memory in the sys_semget() function and can be exploited to gain root privileges by an unprivileged local user in a default configuration. The fix was included in the OpenBSD-current codebase on May 23, but for already […]

NTFS-3G Update 2026.7.7 Fixes 9 Vulnerabilities

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The release of the NTFS-3G package 2026.7.7 has been announced, which includes a free driver operating in user space using the FUSE mechanism and a set of ntfsprogs utilities for manipulating NTFS partitions. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version fixes 9 vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution with root privileges when processing specially crafted partitions or disk images with […]

nginx 1.31.3 update addressing RCE vulnerability

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The major branch release of nginx 1.31.3 has been formed, continuing the development of new features, along with the release of the concurrently supported stable branch nginx 1.30.4, which only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The updates address 3 vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-42533 — a buffer overflow occurring when using checks with regular expressions in the 'map' directive with substitutions […]

Release of the COSMIC desktop environment 1.3.0

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System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC desktop environment version 1.3.0. Packages for COSMIC 1.3.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and are expected soon in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries) licenses. COSMIC is evolving as a universal […]

The base system of FreeBSD-CURRENT has been freed from components under the GPL license

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In the FreeBSD-CURRENT codebase, on which the FreeBSD 16 branch is based, a change has been made to remove the last components distributed under the GPL license from the base system - the diff3 and dialog utilities. The diff3 program has been replaced with an equivalent from the OpenBSD project, distributed under the BSD license, while a tool called bsddialog was specifically developed for FreeBSD to replace dialog. The installer has been translated […]

Release of service manager s6-rc 0.7

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The release of service manager s6-rc 0.7.0.0 has been published, designed for managing the startup of initialization scripts and services. It supports tracking dependency trees and automatically starting or stopping services to achieve the specified state. The s6-rc toolset can be used both in initialization systems and for launching arbitrary services in connection with events reflecting system state changes. The system supports initialization scripts, […]

Firefox is transitioning to a two-week release cycle

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Sylvestre Ledru, the engineering director at Mozilla, has announced the transition to a two-week release cycle for Firefox. Starting in September, new releases will be generated every two weeks instead of every four weeks. This change is already reflected in the release schedule: the last release with a four-week development cycle will be Firefox 154, scheduled for August 18. After that, […]

Release of the composite server Weston 16.0

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After five months of development, the stable release of the composite server Weston 16.0 has been published, advancing technologies that facilitate full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other desktop environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for utilizing Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, televisions […]

Security analysis of 281 VPN applications for Android

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Researchers from the University of Michigan developed a tool called MVPNalyzer to identify information leaks and analyze VPN performance, testing 281 VPN applications for the Android platform. The study focused on the most popular VPN apps available through the Google Play catalog. VPN applications identified with various security and privacy issues total 2.4 billion […]

An initiative to simplify testing experimental software versions in GNOME OS

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GNOME OS developers, a distribution for GNOME developers and testers, introduced an initiative to create a toolkit to simplify the testing of experimental software versions in distributions provided as atomically updatable monolithic system images. The developing GNOME OS Developer Tool Suite will enable the assembly, distribution, and testing of extensions for distributions delivered as system images. The toolkit will provide developers and […]

The first stable release of IncidentRelay, a system for organizing on-call duties and alert routing

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After five months of development, the release of IncidentRelay 1.1 has been published, enhancing the open system for organizing on-call duties, alert routing, and incident management, which runs on its own server (self-hosted). IncidentRelay 1.1 is marked as the first stable release (the 1.0 branch was in beta). The project is aimed at SRE, DevOps, and infrastructure teams that need a locally deployable alternative to SaaS services for managing on-call […]

Beta version of LibreOffice suite 26.8

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The Document Foundation announced the start of beta testing for the LibreOffice suite 26.8. Ready installation packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. The release is scheduled for August 18-20. Changes include: Support for different background colors of the top panel (Notebookbars) in different modules (Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress). In tabbed tool mode, category labels have been added. Added […]

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