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Critical vulnerability in the WordPress plugin wpDiscuz, which has 80,000 installations

A dangerous vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress plugin wpDiscuz, which is installed on over 80,000 sites. This flaw allows anyone to upload any file to the server without authentication, including PHP files, thereby executing their code on the server. Versions affected are from 7.0.0 to 7.0.4 inclusive. The vulnerability has been fixed in release 7.0.5. The wpDiscuz plugin allows the use of AJAX for […]

Release of the Apache Hadoop 3.3 data processing platform

After a year and a half of development, the Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Hadoop 3.3.0, a free platform designed for distributed processing of large volumes of data using the map/reduce paradigm, which divides tasks into many smaller, isolated fragments, each of which can be executed on a separate node of the cluster. A Hadoop-based storage can scale across thousands of nodes and […]

Release Wine 5.14

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.14 — has taken place. Since the release of version 5.13, 26 bug reports have been closed and 302 changes made. The most significant changes include: Continued restructuring support for the console. An initial version of the Webdings font has been proposed. The conversion of MSVCRT libraries to PE format has begun. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications have been closed: […]

Debian 10.5 update

The fifth corrective update for the Debian 10 distribution has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. The release contains 101 updates addressing stability issues and 62 updates addressing vulnerabilities. Among the changes in Debian 10.5 is the fix for a vulnerability in GRUB2 that allows bypassing the UEFI Secure Boot mechanism and enables the installation of unverified malicious software. […]

The wayland-utils package 1.0.0 has been released

The developers of Wayland have introduced the first release of the new package wayland-utils, which will include utilities related to Wayland, similar to how the wayland-protocols package provides additional protocols and extensions. Currently, it includes only one utility, wayland-info, designed to display information about the Wayland protocols supported by the current composite server. The utility stands alone […]

Vulnerabilities in the X.Org Server and libX11

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in X.Org Server and libX11: CVE-2020-14347 — a lack of memory initialization when allocating buffers for pixmaps via the AllocatePixmap() call can lead to the X client leaking memory content from the heap when the X server is running with elevated privileges. This leak can be used to bypass address space layout randomization (ASLR). When combined with other vulnerabilities, this issue […]

Today is System Administrator Day. Our congratulations!

Every year on the last Friday of July, the world celebrates System Administrator Appreciation Day — a professional holiday for all those responsible for the reliable and uninterrupted functioning of servers, corporate networks, workstations, multi-user computer systems, databases, and other network services. This tradition was initiated by American IT specialist Ted Kekatos, who believed it was unfair that there was no significant day in the calendar for […]

Update JPype 1.0.2, a library for accessing Java classes from Python.

A new release of the JPype 1.0.2 layer is now available, allowing full access for Python applications to Java class libraries. With JPype, specific Java libraries can be used from Python, creating hybrid applications that combine Java and Python code. Unlike Jython, the integration with Java is achieved not by creating a version of Python for the JVM, but through interaction […]

Release of system manager systemd 246

After five months of development, the system manager systemd 246 has been released. The new version includes support for freezing units, the ability to verify the root disk image by digital signature, support for compressing logs and core dumps using the ZSTD algorithm, the ability to unlock portable home directories using FIDO2 tokens, support for unlocking Microsoft BitLocker partitions via /etc/crypttab, and the renaming of BlackList to DenyList. […]

systemd 246

The well-known system manager for GNU/Linux has prepared another release numbered 246. In this version: automatic loading of security rules, AppArmor support for checking disk encryption in units with ConditionPathIsEncrypted=/AssertPathIsEncrypted=, support for checking environment variables ConditionEnvironment=/AssertEnvironment=, support for checking the digital signature of the partition (dm-verity) in .service units, and the ability to transmit keys and certificates through AF_UNIX sockets without the need for […]

Microsoft has added CCleaner to the list of potentially unwanted applications

It has been reported that the built-in antivirus in the Windows 10 software platform, Windows Defender (Microsoft Defender), has now classified the CCleaner application as potentially unwanted. This follows information that recently appeared on the official Microsoft Security Intelligence page. Recall that the CCleaner application is a utility designed to clean and optimize the operating system by removing unnecessary files and cleaning the registry […]

The release of GTK 3.99.0 marked the readiness of functionality planned for GTK 4.

The final experimental release of the GTK framework 3.99.0 has been published, which includes all the capabilities planned for GTK 4. The GTK 4 branch is being developed under a new development process that aims to provide application developers with a stable and maintainable API for several years, allowing for use without the concern of having to redo applications every six months due to API changes in the next branch […]

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