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A vulnerability in the vhost-net driver within the Linux kernel

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A vulnerability (CVE-2020-10942) has been identified in the vhost-net driver, which provides virtio net functionality on the host environment, allowing a local user to initiate a kernel stack overflow by sending a specially crafted ioctl(VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND) to the /dev/vhost-net device. The issue arises from the lack of proper validation of the sk_family field content in the get_raw_socket() function code. Preliminary reports indicate that the vulnerability could be leveraged for a local DoS attack through kernel crash calls (details are […]

GitHub has successfully completed its acquisition of NPM

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GitHub Inc, owned by Microsoft and operating as an independent business unit, has announced the successful completion of its acquisition of the NPM Inc business, which oversees the development of the NPM package manager and maintains the NPM repository. The NPM repository serves over 1.3 million packages used by approximately 12 million developers, with about 75 billion downloads recorded monthly. The deal amount is […]

Guix System 1.1.0

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Guix System is a Linux distribution based on the GNU Guix package manager. The distribution provides advanced package management features, such as transactional updates and rollbacks, reproducible build environments, management of unprivileged packages, and profiles for each user. The latest release of the project is Guix System 1.1.0, which introduces a range of new features and improvements, including the ability to perform large-scale deployments […]

Microsoft may change the delivery mechanism for new features in Windows 10

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A major update for the Windows 10 platform is expected from Microsoft in May of this year, which will bring new features along with fixes. According to reports from network sources, Microsoft is currently testing a series of changes for the Windows Update Center, which may be rolled out in the future. Based on available information, Microsoft may significantly change the way new features are delivered in Windows 10. […]

Chrome update 81.0.4044.113 addressing a critical vulnerability

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A browser update for Chrome 81.0.4044.113 has been released, addressing a critical vulnerability that allows bypassing all layers of browser protection and executing code outside the sandbox environment. Details of the vulnerability (CVE-2020-6457) have not yet been disclosed, but it is known to be caused by accessing a freed memory block in the speech recognition component (by the way, the last critical vulnerability […]

openITCOCKPIT 4.0 (Beta) has been released

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openITCOCKPIT is a multi-client PHP-based interface for managing Nagios and Naemon monitoring systems. The system aims to create the simplest interface possible for monitoring complex IT infrastructures. Moreover, openITCOCKPIT offers a solution for monitoring remote systems (Distributed Monitoring), managed from a single centralized point. Key changes: New backend, new design, and new features. Custom monitoring agent — […]

KwinFT — a fork of Kwin aimed at more active development and optimization

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Roman Gilg, one of the active developers of Kwin and Xwayland, presented a fork of the Kwin window manager called KwinFT (Fast Track), as well as a completely redesigned version of the Kwayland library called Wrapland, which is decoupled from Qt. The goal of the fork is to enable more active development of Kwin, increase the necessary functionality for Wayland, and optimize rendering. Classic Kwin suffers from […]

Release of VirtualBox 6.1.6

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Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system 6.1.6, which includes 9 fixes. Corrective releases for VirtualBox 6.0.20 and 5.2.40 have also been issued simultaneously. The updates address 19 vulnerabilities, 7 of which are categorized as critical (CVSS above 8). This includes vulnerabilities exploited in attacks demonstrated at the Pwn2Own 2020 competition, allowing through […]

49 extensions intercepting cryptocurrency wallet keys found in the Chrome Web Store

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MyCrypto and PhishFort identified 49 malicious extensions in the Chrome Web Store catalog that sent private keys and passwords from cryptocurrency wallets to attackers' servers. The extensions were distributed using phishing advertising methods and were presented as implementations of various cryptocurrency wallets. They were based on the code of official wallets but included malicious modifications that sent private keys, recovery codes, and […]

The Xiaomi Mi Box S TV box has received an update to Android 9

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The Xiaomi Mi Box S Android TV box was introduced back in the fourth quarter of 2018. The device received a refreshed design and a new remote, although the internal components remained the same as its predecessor. Now Xiaomi has updated the box, originally launched with Android 8.1 TV, to Android 9 Pie. The size of the update is just over 600 MB and includes […]

Zimbra is discontinuing the publication of open releases for the new branch

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The developers of the Zimbra collaboration and email suite, positioned as an alternative to MS Exchange, have changed their open-source publication policy. Starting with the release of Zimbra 9, the project will no longer publish binary builds of the Zimbra Open Source Edition and will limit itself to the release of the commercial version, Zimbra Network Edition. Moreover, the developers do not plan to release the source code of Zimbra 9 for the community […]

In Fedora 33, there are plans to switch to systemd-resolved

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For Fedora 33, a change is planned that will transition the distribution to using systemd-resolved by default for DNS query resolution. Glibc will be switched to nss-resolve from the systemd project instead of the built-in NSS module nss-dns. Systemd-resolved performs functions such as maintaining settings in the resolv.conf file based on DHCP and static DNS configuration data for network interfaces, supports DNSSEC, and LLMNR (Link […]

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