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Exim 4.94.2 Update Resolves 10 Remote Exploitable Vulnerabilities

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The Exim mail server version 4.94.2 has been released, addressing 21 vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-28007 to CVE-2020-28026, CVE-2021-27216), which were identified by Qualys and presented under the codename 21Nails. Ten of the issues can be exploited remotely (including for executing code with root privileges) through manipulation of SMTP commands when interacting with the server. All versions of Exim are affected, with their history tracked in Git […]

Release of wayland-protocols 1.21

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The release of the wayland-protocols package version 1.21 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the functionalities needed for building composite servers and user environments. Starting with version 1.21, the development stage of the protocols labeled 'unstable' has been replaced with 'staging' to smooth the stabilization process of protocols that have been tested in production environments. All protocols sequentially go through three phases […]

Muse Group has acquired the Audacity project.

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Evgeny Naydenov, the founder of the Ultimate Guitar community, announced the creation of Muse Group and the acquisition of the audio editor Audacity, which will now develop alongside other products of the new company. The development will continue in the form of a free project. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Muse Group will also include the free notation editor MuseScore, acquired in 2017, which continues to develop […]

A vulnerability in the Composer package manager allows for the compromise of the PHP repository Packagist

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-29472) has been identified in the Composer dependency manager, allowing arbitrary commands to be executed in the system when processing a package with a specially formatted URL value that specifies the address for fetching source texts. The issue is present in the GitDriver, SvnDriver, and HgDriver components used with version control systems Git, Subversion, and Mercurial. The vulnerability has been fixed in Composer releases 1.10.22 and 2.0.13. […]

The release of the OpenIndiana 2021.04 distribution, continuing the development of OpenSolaris.

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After six months of development, the release of the free distribution OpenIndiana 2021.04 has taken place, replacing the binary distribution OpenSolaris, whose development was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides users with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which is enhancing the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, and basic […]

Release of OpenBSD 6.9.

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The free cross-platform UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 6.9 has been released. This marks the 50th release of the project, which celebrates its 26th anniversary this year. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 following a conflict with the developers of NetBSD, resulting in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After that, Theo […]

Release of the mail server Postfix 3.6.0.

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After a year of development, the release of a new stable branch of the Postfix mail server — 3.6.0 — has occurred. At the same time, it was announced that support for the Postfix 3.2 branch, released in early 2017, will be discontinued. Postfix is one of the few projects that combines high security, reliability, and performance, achieved through a well-thought-out architecture and a sufficiently strict policy for code formatting and […]

The Free Software Foundation has certified the ThinkPenguin TPE-R1300 wireless router.

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The Free Software Foundation has introduced a new device that has received the 'Respect Your Freedom' certification, confirming that the device meets the requirements for ensuring user privacy and freedom, and grants the right to use a special logo in product-related materials, highlighting the provision of full control to the user over the device. The certificate has been awarded to the Wireless-N Mini Router v3 (TPE-R1300), distributed by ThinkPenguin. The TPE-R1300 is an improved version of […]

Release of GhostBSD 21.04.27

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The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 21.04.27 distribution, built on FreeBSD, is now available, offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC initialization system and the ZFS file system. It supports both live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using its own installer ginstall written in Python). Bootable images have been created for the x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). In […]

Release of QEMU 6.0 emulator

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The release of QEMU 6.0 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, running an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to that of a physical system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and by utilizing […]

RotaJakiro — a new malware for Linux, masquerading as the systemd process

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The research lab 360 Netlab reported the discovery of new malware for Linux, codenamed RotaJakiro, which includes a backdoor implementation that allows control of the system. The malware could have been installed by attackers after exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in the system or guessing weak passwords. The backdoor was detected during the analysis of suspicious traffic from one of the system processes identified during the analysis of […]

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