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Vulnerabilities in Kea DHCP and cyrus-imapd packages allow for privilege escalation in the system.

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Vulnerabilities have been identified in the configurations of the Kea DHCP server, developed by the ISC consortium as a replacement for the classic ISC DHCP, used by various distributions. In certain situations, these vulnerabilities may allow a local user to execute code with root privileges or overwrite any file in the system: CVE-2025-32801 — allows a local user to gain root privileges on systems where Kea runs as the root user or gain full control […]

Release of web browser Chrome 137

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Google has released version 137 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, providing a crash notification system, including modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always having Sandbox isolation enabled, supplying keys to Google APIs, and transmitting RLZ parameters […]

Release of the window manager plwm 0.4, written in Prolog

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The release of the plwm 0.4 window manager has been announced, developed in Prolog and supporting a tiling window layout. The project's goals include achieving a high quality codebase and documentation, ease of configuration to personal preferences, and addressing the typical needs of users of tiling window managers. The project's code is distributed under the MIT license. It can utilize the SWI-Prolog toolkit for running. On this […]

Vulnerability in GitHub's MCP server leading to information leakage from private repositories.

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A vulnerability has been discovered in the GitHub MCP Server, the implementation of the MCP (Model Context Protocol) by GitHub, which allows for the extraction of data from the private repositories of users utilizing AI assistants for automating their repository interactions. The MCP protocol is designed to link AI models with various data sources. The GitHub MCP Server facilitates seamless integration of large language models with the GitHub API, providing these models with additional […]

Vulnerability in GNU sort leading to buffer overflow

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A vulnerability (CVE-2025-5278) has been identified in the sort utility included with the GNU Coreutils package, which leads to out-of-bounds data access when sorting using the syntax ‘+POS1[.C1][OPTS]’ used for selecting sort keys from processed data. This problem is caused by an integer wraparound in the begfield() function, allowing the reading of one byte of data outside of the buffer. The vulnerability can be exploited to call […]

Release of KaOS 2025.05 distribution

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KaOS 2025.05 has been released, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE releases and applications using Qt. Among the specific design features, the vertical panel placed on the right side of the screen can be noted. The distribution is developed with a focus on Arch Linux but maintains its own independent repository containing over 1500 packages, and also offers […]

The Thunderbird 139.0 email client has been released

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The release of the Thunderbird 139.0 email client, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies, is now available. Thunderbird 139 is built on the Firefox 139 codebase and is categorized as an intermediate version, with updates released until the next version. In the long-term support ESR branch, updates will be released for a year, culminating in Thunderbird 128.11.0. Key changes in Thunderbird: […]

Release of GNU Automake 1.18, a tool for generating build files

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The release of Automake 1.18 has been announced, a utility for automatically generating makefiles compliant with the GNU coding standards. In this new version: Support for the Algol 68 programming language has been added, utilizing the GNU Algol 68 compiler. By default, it has transitioned to the ustar tar archive format, which supports longer filenames. Support for obtaining the date via the environment variable has been added in the mdate-sh script used during Texinfo assembly […]

Beta testing of VirtualBox 7.2.0 has begun

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A year after the significant last branch formation, Oracle has presented the first beta release of the VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization system. The release is expected in summer. Beta builds of VirtualBox 7.2 are prepared for RHEL 8/9/10, Fedora 36/40, openSUSE 15.6, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04/24.10, Debian 11/12, macOS, and Windows. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Key changes: In the graphical […]

AlmaLinux 10.0 distribution is now available.

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The release of AlmaLinux 10.0 has been presented, synchronized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 and containing all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64_v3, x86_64_v2, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (864 MB), minimal (1.4 GB), and full images (7.3 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later, and […]

Release of Firefox 139

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The release of web browser Firefox 139 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches — 115.24.0 and 128.11.0 — have been formed. The Firefox 140 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for June 24. Key innovations in Firefox 139: The ability to set a custom background image or choose a background color for the page displayed when opening a new tab has been added. This function is still […]

Release of Armbian 25.5 and DietPi 9.13, distributions for single-board computers.

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The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 25.5 has been published, providing a compact operating environment for single-board computers with processors based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on processors from Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos. The builds were formed […]

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