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Vulnerabilities in LibreCAD, Ruby, TensorFlow, Mailman, and Vim

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Several recently discovered vulnerabilities: Three vulnerabilities in the open source CAD system LibreCAD and the libdxfrw library allow for controlled buffer overflow and the potential execution of arbitrary code when opening specially crafted files in DWG and DXF formats. The issues have only been addressed in the form of patches (CVE-2021-21898, CVE-2021-21899, CVE-2021-21900). A vulnerability (CVE-2021-41817) in the Date.parse method provided in the standard library […]

Release of the desktop engine Arcan 0.6.1

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After a year of development, the release of the desktop engine Arcan 0.6.1 is now available, which combines a display server, multimedia framework, and gaming engine for processing 3D graphics. Arcan can be used to create various graphical systems, from user interfaces for embedded applications to standalone desktop environments. This includes the development of the three-dimensional desktop Safespaces for virtual reality systems and […]

Release of the completely free Linux distribution PureOS 10

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Purism, the company behind the Librem 5 smartphone and a series of laptops, servers, and mini-PCs shipped with Linux and CoreBoot, has announced the release of the PureOS 10 distribution, built on the Debian package base and featuring only free applications, including one that comes with the GNU Linux-Libre kernel, stripped of proprietary binary firmware elements. PureOS has been recognized by the Free Software Foundation as fully […]

Release of Stratis 3.0, a toolkit for managing local storage

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The Stratis 3.0 project release has been published, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community to unify and simplify the tools for configuring and managing a pool of one or more local storage devices. Stratis offers features such as dynamic space allocation, snapshots, integrity assurance, and layer creation for caching. Stratis support is integrated into Fedora and RHEL distributions starting from […]

Release of the nftables 1.0.1 packet filter

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The nftables 1.0.1 packet filter release has been published, which unifies the packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and network bridges (aimed at replacing iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables). The necessary changes for nftables 1.0.1 have been included in the Linux kernel 5.16-rc1. The nftables package includes user-space packet filtering components, while at the kernel level […]

Release of Wine 6.22

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An experimental branch of the open WinAPI implementation — Wine 6.22 — has been released. Since the release of version 6.21, 29 bug reports have been closed, and 418 changes have been made. The most important changes include: the Wine Mono engine with the .NET platform implementation has been updated to release 7.0.0. Support for exception unwinding has been implemented for the ARM platform. Joystick support for HID (Human Interface […]

Malicious libraries using the PyPI CDN to obscure communication channels have been identified in the PyPI catalog.

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Eleven packages containing malicious code have been detected in the PyPI (Python Package Index). Before being identified, the packages were downloaded approximately 38,000 times in total. The identified malicious packages are notable for employing intricate methods to hide communication channels with the attackers' servers. importantpackage (6305 downloads), important-package (12897) — established a connection to an external server disguised as a connection to pypi.python.org for providing […]

The twentieth firmware update of Ubuntu Touch

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The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical withdrew support, has released the OTA-20 firmware update (over-the-air). The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, renamed to Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch OTA-20 update has been created for BQ E4.5/E5/M10/U Plus smartphones, Cosmo Communicator, F(x)tec Pro1, Fairphone 2/3, Google […]

Firefox has added dark and light mode display settings for websites. Firefox update 94.0.2

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis for the release of Firefox 96, the ability to force enable dark and light theme options for websites has been added. The color scheme changes are made by the browser and do not require support from the website, allowing the application of a dark theme on sites that are only available in light tones, and a light theme on dark sites. To change […]

Release of ControlFlag 1.0, a tool for detecting errors in C code

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Intel has released the first significant version of the ControlFlag 1.0 toolkit, which allows for the detection of errors and anomalies in source texts using a machine learning system trained on a large volume of existing code. Unlike traditional static analyzers, ControlFlag does not apply pre-set rules that struggle to account for all possible variations, but instead relies on statistics of the usage of various language constructs in a large […]

In Chrome 97, the option for selective cookie deletion will be removed from settings.

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Google has announced a redesign in the upcoming release of Chrome 97 for managing browser-side stored data. In the section 'Settings > Privacy and Security > Site Settings > View permissions and data stored across files', a new interface 'chrome://settings/content/all' will be applied by default. The most noticeable difference in the new interface is the focus on permissions and data clearing […]

Release of nginx 1.20.2

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After 5 months of development, a patch release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server nginx 1.20.2 has been prepared, which is being developed alongside the stable branch 1.20.X, where only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made. Key changes included in the patch release process: Compatibility with OpenSSL 3.0 has been ensured. Fixed an issue with logging empty SSL variables; Fixed a closing error […]

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