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A vulnerability in GNU screen allows executing code with root privileges

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In the GNU screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) providing a multi-window interface in the console, 5 vulnerabilities have been identified. The most critical issue (CVE-2025-23395) allows obtaining root privileges in the system. The fix is included in today's release of screen 5.0.1. The CVE-2025-23395 vulnerability occurs only in the screen 5.0.0 branch, which is provided in Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Alpine. In Debian, […]

The Guix project is transitioning to Git hosting on Codeberg

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The Guix project, which develops the eponymous package manager and GNU/Linux distribution based on it, has announced the transfer of Git repositories from GNU Savannah to the Git hosting platform Codeberg, which utilizes the Forgejo collaborative development platform (a fork of Gitea). The systems for reviewing patches and tracking bug reports, which have previously relied on email submissions, will also be moved to Codeberg. All Git repositories of the project will be transferred […]

Vulnerability in Dropbear SSH allows command injection in dbclient

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The Dropbear project has released version 2025.88, which develops the SSH server and client used in wireless routers and compact distributions like OpenWrt. The new version addresses a vulnerability (CVE-2025-47203) in the SSH client implementation (dbclient), which allows shell commands to be executed when handling specially formatted hostnames. The vulnerability is caused by a lack of escaping special characters in hostnames and the use of a command interpreter when launching commands […]

Planka project switches to a non-free license

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The Planka project, which offers a self-hosted Kanban board service for team collaboration and task tracking, has transitioned to a non-free license. Initially, the project used the Expat/MIT license, switched to the AGPLv3 license in 2023, and has now adopted the non-free "Fair Use License," based on the "Sustainable Use License." The license change was made in the second release candidate of Planka 2.0, […]

Release of console RSS aggregator Newsraft 0.30

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The release of the command-line news feed reader Newsraft 0.30 has occurred, supporting RSS and Atom formats. Newsraft is designed to aggregate content from various blogs and platforms and view it through a single interface built on the ncurses library. The project is inspired by the Newsboat application but is an independent development, presented as a lightweight alternative. The aim of the project is to provide the most […]

OpenSearch 3.0 is available, a fork of the Elasticsearch platform

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The non-profit organization OpenSearch Software Foundation, controlled by the Linux Foundation, has released version 3.0 of the OpenSearch project, which develops a fork of the Elasticsearch data search, analysis, and storage platform and the Kibana web interface. Companies like Amazon, SAP, Uber, Aryn, Atlassian, Canonical, DigitalOcean, and NetAp are participating in the development of the fork. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The fork was created in 2021 as a […]

The new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution

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The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have introduced a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution 2025-05-06 (Raspbian), based on the Debian 12 package base and Linux kernel 6.12. Approximately 35,000 packages are available in the repository. The desktop environment is based on the composite server labwc, utilizing the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds have been prepared for download—a minimal build (494 MB) for server […]

Release of the OmniOS CE r151054 distribution, built on OpenSolaris technologies.

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The release of the OmniOS Community Edition r151054 distribution has been published, based on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues to advance the kernel, networking stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and a basic set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. OmniOS is notable for providing support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual network stack, the ZFS file system, and the tools for launching lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used to build scalable web systems, virtualization […]

Release of Clonezilla Live 3.2.1 distribution.

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The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.2.1 has been published, designed for fast disk cloning, which copies only the used blocks. The tasks performed by this distribution are similar to the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 484MB (amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast in its operation. Booting from […]

Release of the Hyprland 0.49 Composite Server

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The Hyprland 0.49 composite server is now available, utilizing the Wayland protocol. The project focuses on a tiling window layout but also supports traditional floating window arrangements, tabbed window grouping, a pseudo-tiling mode, and full-screen window expansion. It provides opportunities for creating visually appealing interfaces with window frame gradients, background blur, animation effects, and shadows. Features can be extended by connecting […]

Release of the Puzzle 2502 distribution

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The release of the lightweight distribution Puzzle 2502 has been published, offering a preconfigured and ready-to-use desktop environment LWDE (Lightweight Wayland Desktop Environment) based on the Labwc composite server. The distribution is built on the Arch Linux package base using its proprietary repository. The project may be useful for enthusiasts looking to create their environment to transition from LXDE to setups using Wayland. For downloading, prepare […]

iVentoy has been found to substitute the root certificate when booting Windows.

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Suspicious activity has been identified in the iVentoy toolkit, used for network booting and installing arbitrary operating systems. When booting Windows from the network, the toolkit performed a substitution in the system for the binary driver httpdisk.sys and installed its self-signed certificate into the system's root certificate store, which is used to attest to the driver with a digital signature. 31 out of 70 antivirus packages checked […]

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