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The maximum lifespan of TLS certificates will be reduced from 398 to 47 days

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Members of the CA/Browser Forum, a platform for coordinating the cooperation between browser manufacturers and certificate authorities, voted to reduce the maximum lifespan of TLS certificates. The maximum validity of TLS certificates will be shortened from 398 to 47 days, unless the CA/Browser Forum revisits this decision in the future. In addition to the validity period of certificates, it has been decided to significantly shorten the timelines for reusing validation data […]

Buffer overflow in Perl related to character handling

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Corrective updates for the Perl interpreters 5.40.2 and 5.38.4 have been released, fixing a vulnerability (CVE-2024-56406) that leads to a buffer overflow when transliterating specially formatted non-ASCII characters using the "tr/.../..." operator. The possibility of exploiting this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the system cannot be ruled out. The issue has been present in stable Perl releases since 2021 and affects the 5.34, 5.36, […]

Progress in porting NVIDIA graphics drivers for Haiku OS

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Ilya Chugin (x512) and Gerasim Troyeglazov (3dEyes) showcased new achievements in porting NVIDIA graphics drivers for the Haiku OS. The port is developed based on open modules for the Linux kernel published by NVIDIA and used in its proprietary drivers, as well as the user-space Vulkan driver NVK from the Mesa suite. A distinctive feature of the approach used is the ability […]

Release of the Pinta 3.0 Graphics Editor

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After two years of development, the release of the open raster graphics editor Pinta 3.0 has been announced, initially founded in 2010 as an attempt to create a simpler alternative to Paint.NET, built using GTK. The editor is aimed at novice users and provides a basic set of features for drawing and image processing. The interface has been simplified as much as possible. The editor supports an unlimited undo buffer, allows […]

Release of Wine-wayland 10.5

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The release of the Wine-wayland 10.5 project has been published, developing a set of patches for using Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol, without using XWayland and X11 components. Partially, many developments from Wine-wayland, including the winewayland.drv driver, have already been integrated into the main Wine composition. The new release is noteworthy for its synchronization with the Wine 10 branch (Wine 10.5 is used) and updates to DXVK, VKD3D, and Mangohud versions. […]

Approval of reproducible builds in Fedora 43

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The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical development of the Fedora Linux distribution, has approved a project to ensure reproducible builds of packages in the upcoming Fedora 43 release. The initiative aims to enable reproducible builds for at least 99% of the packages in the repository. Reproducible builds will allow the creation of custom RPM packages that match the pre-built binaries available for download […]

Release of Angie 1.9.0, a fork of Nginx

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The release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server Angie 1.9.0, forked from Nginx by a group of former developers who left F5 Network, has been announced. The source code of Angie is available under the BSD license. The project has received compatibility certificates with Russian operating systems such as Red OS, Astra Linux Special Edition, Rosa Chrome Server, Alt, and the FSTEC version of Alt. The development is supported by the company 'Web-server', established […]

AMD Zen 5 CPUs are vulnerable to an issue that allows for microcode changes and circumvention of SEV-SNP isolation.

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AMD has included processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture in the list of products affected by the EntrySign vulnerability, which allows the bypassing of the digital signature verification mechanism during microcode updates. It was initially thought that the vulnerability only affected AMD CPUs based on the 1st to 4th generations of Zen microarchitecture. Thus, the vulnerability is applicable to processors such as Ryzen 9000 (Granite Ridge), EPYC 9005 (Turin), Ryzen […]

Vulnerabilities in the ConnMan network configurator and the DNS library c-ares.

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A vulnerability (CVE-2025-32743) has been identified in the ConnMan network configurator, widely used in embedded Linux systems, automotive platforms, and Internet of Things devices, which could potentially allow code execution when processing specially crafted responses from a DNS server. This issue has been assigned a critical threat level (9.1 out of 10). The vulnerability exists up to the current release of ConnMan 1.44 and remains unpatched. The vulnerability is present in […]

Release of GNU utilities grep 3.12, gzip 1.14, diffutils 3.12, and coreutils 9.7.

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The GNU project has released the gzip 1.14 package, which includes the utilities gzip, gunzip, zmore, and zcat for compressing and decompressing data using the LZ77 algorithm. In this new release, decompression operations have been significantly accelerated. On x86_64 systems that support PCLMUL processor instructions, performance gains reach 40%, while on systems without PCLMUL support, gains are up to 20%. The acceleration has been achieved through the optimization of operations […]

Release of Cozystack 0.30, an open source PaaS platform based on Kubernetes

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The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.30.0, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and encompasses all aspects of infrastructure preparation for delivering managed services. Cozystack enables the deployment and provision of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]

The results of the security audit of the PHP codebase have been published

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The OSTIF (Open Source Technology Improvement Fund) has announced the completion of an independent audit of the core codebase of the PHP project, aimed at enhancing the security of open-source projects. The work was carried out by the French company QuarksLab, which has previously been engaged for audits of OpenVPN, VeraCrypt, and OpenSSL projects. During the audit, 27 issues were identified, of which 17 relate to security, and 10 are associated with […]

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