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Root vulnerability in the Linux kernel and denial of service in systemd

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Security researchers from Qualys have revealed details of two vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel and the system manager systemd. The kernel vulnerability (CVE-2021-33909) allows a local user to execute code with root privileges through manipulations with deeply nested directories. The risk is exacerbated by the fact that researchers have prepared working exploits that function in Ubuntu 20.04/20.10/21.04, Debian 11, and Fedora 34 […]

Release Wine 6.13 and Wine staging 6.13

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The experimental branch of the open-source implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.13 has been released. Since the release of version 6.12, 31 bug reports have been closed and 284 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Correct theme support for scroll bars has been implemented. Work on converting WinSock and IPHLPAPI into libraries based on the PE (Portable Executable) format has continued. Preparations have been made for the implementation […]

Release of VirtualBox 6.1.24

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Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox 6.1.24 virtualization system, which includes 18 fixes. Key changes: Support for kernel 5.13 has been added for guest systems and hosts running Linux, as well as kernels from the SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 distribution. Additional support for Linux kernels provided in Ubuntu has been added to the guest system extensions. The component installer for host systems has been updated to include […]

The Stockfish project has filed a lawsuit against ChessBase and revoked its GPL license

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The Stockfish project, distributed under the GPLv3 license, has sued ChessBase, revoking the GPL license for the use of its code. Stockfish is known as the strongest chess engine used on chess services lichess.org and chess.com. The lawsuit was filed regarding the inclusion of Stockfish code in a proprietary product without releasing the source code of the derivative work. ChessBase is known […]

A GPIO driver written in Rust has been proposed for the Linux kernel

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In response to Linus Torvalds’ remark that the example driver provided with the patchset implementing Rust support for the Linux kernel is useless and does not address real tasks, a version of the PL061 GPIO driver rewritten in Rust has been proposed. The feature of this driver is that its implementation closely follows the existing GPIO driver written in C. For developers, […]

Muse Group is seeking to shut down the musescore-downloader project repository on GitHub

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Muse Group, founded by the Ultimate Guitar project and owning open projects MusesCore and Audacity, has resumed attempts to close the musescore-downloader repository, which develops an application for free downloading of musical scores from musescore.com without the need to log in to the site and without connecting to the paid Musescore Pro subscription. Claims also concern the musescore-dataset repository with a collection of scores copied from musescore.com. […]

Linux kernel has been loaded onto the ESP32 board

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Enthusiasts have managed to boot a Linux 5.0-based environment on the ESP32 board with a dual-core Tensilica Xtensa processor (ESP32 devkit v1, without a full MMU), equipped with 2 MB of Flash and 8 MB of PSRAM, connected via SPI interface. A ready-made Linux firmware image for the ESP32 has been prepared for loading. The loading process takes about 6 minutes. The firmware is based on the image […]

An update for uMatrix 1.4.2 has been released, despite the project development being discontinued.

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Raymond Hill, the author of the ad-blocking system uBlock Origin, has published a new version of the browser extension uMatrix 1.4.2, which offers blocking capabilities for external resources similar to a firewall. The update was released as an exception, even though development of the extension was halted last year. The release of the new version does not indicate a resumption of development — following publication […]

Release of the FreeType font engine 2.11

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The release of FreeType 2.11.0 has been announced, a modular font engine that provides a unified API for processing and rendering font data in various vector and raster formats. Changes include: Development has been moved to the GitLab server of the Freedesktop project. Old repositories on Savannah have been mirrored. The release includes an additional rendering module with implementation of the FT_RENDER_MODE_SDF mode for creating 8-bit SDF (Signed […]

Linus Torvalds commented on the situation with the NTFS driver from Paragon Software.

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During a discussion on the delegation of responsibilities for maintaining filesystem code and related VFS drivers, Linus Torvalds expressed his willingness to accept patches for a new implementation of the NTFS filesystem directly, if Paragon Software takes on the responsibilities of maintaining the NTFS filesystem in the Linux kernel and receives confirmation from other kernel developers who have reviewed the correctness of the code (according to […]

Update for Firefox 90.0.1

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A corrective release of Firefox 90.0.1 is available, which offers several fixes: Fixed a looping issue causing excessive CPU load when processing responses over the HTTP/3 protocol. Resolved a crash occurring during shutdown under rare circumstances. Fixed authentication errors that occurred when using certain smart cards. Fixed a crash that manifested in Windows when using accessibility tools […]

Release of GNU Binutils 2.37

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The release of the GNU Binutils 2.37 system utility set has been presented, including programs such as the GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, strings, and strip. In the new version: The requirements for the build environment have been increased; libraries and a compiler supporting the C99 standard are now required to build Binutils. Support for the arm-symbianelf format has been discontinued. RME (Realm Management Extension) support has been added, an extension for the architecture […]

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