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In Firefox and Chrome, a feature of processing search queries entered in the address bar has been identified, leading to information leakage through the provider's DNS server. The essence of the problem is that if a search query consists of only one word, the browser first tries to resolve the presence of a host with that name in DNS, assuming that the user is trying to open a subdomain, and only then redirects […]
The release of Wi-Fi daemon IWD 1.8 (iNet Wireless Daemon) is now available, developed by Intel as an alternative to wpa_supplicant for connecting Linux systems to a wireless network. IWD can be used standalone or as a backend for network configurators such as Network Manager and ConnMan. The project is suitable for embedded devices and optimized for minimal power consumption […]
The new release of Dropbear 2020.79, a compact SSH server and client, distributed under the MIT license and primarily used on embedded systems such as wireless routers, has been introduced. Dropbear is characterized by low memory usage (with static linking to uClibc, it takes only 110kB), the ability to disable unnecessary functionality at the build stage, and support for building the client and server in a single executable file […]
The stable release of FFmpeg 4.3 ("4:3") has occurred—a set of free libraries with open source code that allows recording, converting, and streaming digital audio and video in various formats. FFmpeg 4.3 includes libraries libavutil 56.51.100, libavcodec 58.91.100, libavformat 58.45.100, libavdevice 58.10.100, libavfilter 7.85.100, libswscale 5.7.100, libswresample 3.7.100, and libpostproc 55.7.100. Key changes include support for the Vulkan API, speed enhancements […]
Nineteen vulnerabilities have been identified in the proprietary Treck TCP/IP stack, which can be exploited by sending specially crafted packets. These vulnerabilities have been given the code name Ripple20. Some vulnerabilities also appear in the KASAGO TCP/IP stack from Zuken Elmic (Elmic Systems), which shares common roots with Treck. The Treck stack is used in many industrial, medical, communication, embedded, and consumer devices (from smart bulbs to printers and […]
An update for the Solaris 11.4 SRU 22 (Support Repository Update) operating system has been released, offering a series of further fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes in the update, simply execute the command 'pkg update'. In this release, alongside bug fixes, the versions of the following open-source components have also been updated: Apache Tomcat 8.5.55, Apache Web Server […]
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to present FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE – the fifth and final release based on the stable/11 branch. Key changes include: In the base system: LLVM and associated tools (clang, lld, lldb) updated to version 10.0.0. OpenSSL updated to version 1.0.2u. Unbound updated to version 1.9.6. Added ZFS bookmarks renaming. Added command certctl(8). In the package repository: pkg(8) […]
Eleven months after the release of 11.3 and seven months since the release of 12.1, FreeBSD 11.4 is now available, prepared for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, aarch64, and armv6 (BEAGLEBONE, CUBIEBOARD, CUBIEBOARD2, CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD, Raspberry Pi B, Raspberry Pi 2, PANDABOARD, WANDBOARD) architectures. Additionally, images for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon cloud environments […]
The Qt Company has released the first beta version of the new Qt 6 branch, which will feature significant architectural changes, and will require a compiler that supports the C++17 standard for building. This release includes only the initial framework of the upcoming Qt 6 release, scheduled for December 1, 2020. The functionality in the Qt 6 branch will expand until the code freeze announcement […]
Qt Company announced in its blog the availability of the first preview build of Qt 6.0. The company states that the first preview build contains binary files only for desktop platforms, and testing on mobile and embedded platforms will require using a source code build. Additionally, Qt 6.0 requires C++17 support from the compiler, so development is focused on relatively recent […]
Ventoy is an open-source tool for creating bootable USB drives for ISO files. With it, you don’t need to format the disk over and over; you just copy the ISO file onto the USB drive and boot from it. You can copy multiple ISO files and select the needed one from the boot menu. Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI modes are supported. […]
The developers of the free antivirus package ClamAV have resolved the issue of providing a signature database based on the Safe Browsing collection distributed by Google, which contains information about phishing sites and those distributing malware. Previously, the Safe Browsing-based signature database was provided by ClamAV developers, but in November of last year, its updates were halted due to restrictions imposed by Google. In particular, […]