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Security updates for Thursday

목, 2024/10/24 - 11:13오후
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana, NetworkManager-libreswan, python3.11, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), Fedora (dotnet6.0, koji, python-fastapi, python-openapi-core, python-platformio, python-starlette, rust-pyo3, rust-pyo3-build-config, rust-pyo3-ffi, rust-pyo3-macros, rust-pyo3-macros-backend, and yarnpkg), Oracle (grafana, kernel, linux-firmware, NetworkManager-libreswan, and python3.11), Slackware (php81), and SUSE (apache2, buildah, cups-filters, go1.21-openssl, podman, postgresql16, python-pyOpenSSL, and webkit2gtk3).
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2024

목, 2024/10/24 - 9:42오전
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2024 is available.
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[$] Toward safe transmutation in Rust

목, 2024/10/24 - 2:40오전

Currently in Rust, there is no efficient and safe way to turn an array of bytes into a structure that corresponds to the array. Changing that was the topic of Jack Wrenn's talk this year at RustConf: "Safety Goggles for Alchemists". The goal is to be able to "transmute" — Rust's name for this kind of conversion — values into arbitrary user-defined types in a safer way. Wrenn justified the approach that the project has taken to accomplish this, and spoke about the future work required to stabilize it.

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Tor Browser 14.0 released

목, 2024/10/24 - 2:19오전

Version 14.0 of the privacy-focused Tor browser has been released.

This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 128, incorporating a year's worth of changes shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit, where we reviewed and addressed over 200 Bugzilla issues for changes in Firefox that may negatively affect the privacy and security of Tor Browser users. Our final reports from this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec repository on our Gitlab instance.

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Kadlčík: Copr Modularity, the End of an Era

목, 2024/10/24 - 12:56오전

Jakub Kadlčík announced on his blog that Fedora's Copr build system will be dropping support for building modules (groups of RPM packages that are built, installed, and shipped together) soon:

The Fedora Modularity project never really took off, and building modules in Copr even less so. We've had only 14 builds in the last two years. It's not feasible to maintain the code for so few users. Modularity has also been retired since Fedora 39 and will die with RHEL 9.

Modularity features in Copr are now deprecated, and it will not be possible to submit new module builds after April 2025. LWN covered some of the problems with Fedora's modularity initiative in 2019.

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[$] Free-software foundations face fundraising problems

수, 2024/10/23 - 11:52오후

In July, at the GNOME annual general meeting (AGM), held at GUADEC 2024, the message from the GNOME Foundation board was that all was well, financially speaking. Not great, but the foundation was on a break-even budget and expected to go into its next fiscal year with a similar budget and headcount. On October 7, however, the board announced that it had had to make some cuts, including reducing its staff by two people. This is not, however, strictly a GNOME problem: similar organizations, such as the Python Software Foundation (PSF), KDE e.V., and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are seeing declines in fundraising while also being affected by inflation.

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Security updates for Wednesday

수, 2024/10/23 - 10:19오후
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dmitry, libheif, and python-sql), Fedora (suricata and wireshark), SUSE (cargo-c, libeverest, protobuf, and qemu), and Ubuntu (golang-1.22, libheif, unbound, and webkit2gtk).
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Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

수, 2024/10/23 - 7:12오전
Perhaps one of the more surprising changes in the 6.12-rc4 development kernel was the removal of several entries from the kernel's MAINTAINERS file. The patch performing the removal was sent (by Greg Kroah-Hartman) only to the patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list; the change was included in a char-misc drivers pull request with no particular mention.

The explanation for the removal is simply "various compliance requirements". Given that the developers involved all appear to be of Russian origin, it is not too hard to imagine what sort of compliance is involved here. There has, however, been no public posting of the policy that required the removal of these entries.

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[$] A report from the 2024 Image-Based Linux Summit

수, 2024/10/23 - 4:20오전

The Image-Based Linux Summit has by now established itself as a yearly event. Following on from last year's edition, the third edition was held in Berlin on September 24, the day before All Systems Go! 2024 (ASG). The purpose of this event is to gather stakeholders from various engineering groups and hold friendly but lively discussions around the topic of image-based Linux — that is, Linux distributions based around immutable images, instead of mutable root filesystems.

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Introducing AlmaLinux OS Kitten (AlmaLinux Blog)

수, 2024/10/23 - 12:56오전

The AlmaLinux project has introduced a new edition called "Kitten", which will serve as "the direct upstream for AlmaLinux OS and is the primary point for the AlmaLinux community to engage and influence the future of AlmaLinux OS". Not intended for production use, the first release is based on CentOS Stream 10 source, which will eventually be the basis for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10:

Because we anticipated many changes in 10, we wanted to get a head start on building AlmaLinux OS 10. Earlier this year we started setting up infrastructure and the build pipeline for AlmaLinux OS 10, and started testing using CentOS Stream 10's code. Based on this preparation work, we are excited to share that we have successfully built a preview of AlmaLinux OS 10 that we are calling AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10.

The first Kitten release previews a number of ways that AlmaLinux will diverge from RHEL 10, including re-enabling frame pointers, including Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE), and adding packages for Firefox and Thunderbird, which have been dropped from CentOS Stream 10 in favor of Flatpak versions. New installation images for Kitten will be built quarterly. See the release notes for download links, installation instructions, and more information.

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Another five stable kernels

화, 2024/10/22 - 11:52오후
The 6.11.5, 6.6.58, 6.1.114, 5.15.169, and 5.10.228 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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OpenSSL 3.4.0 released

화, 2024/10/22 - 10:59오후
Version 3.4.0 of the OpenSSL SSL/TLS library has been released. It adds a number of new encryption algorithms, support for "directly fetched composite signature algorithms such as RSA-SHA2-256", and more. See the release notes for details.
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Security updates for Tuesday

화, 2024/10/22 - 10:36오후
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, ghostscript, libsepol, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, perl, and python-sql), Oracle (389-ds-base, buildah, containernetworking-plugins, edk2, httpd, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, python-setuptools, skopeo, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (buildah), Slackware (openssl), SUSE (apache2, firefox, libopenssl-3-devel, podman, and python310-starlette), and Ubuntu (cups-browsed, firefox, libgsf, and linux-gke).
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A new kernel testing tree

화, 2024/10/22 - 3:20오전
Sasha Levin has announced a new tree that is intended to perform continuous-integration tests of pull requests aimed at the mainline. The plan is for this tree to hold more finished work than sometimes ends up in linux-next; in a name that seems destined to create typographical confusion, it is called "linus-next".

The linus-next tree aims to provide a more stable and testable integration point compared to linux-next, addressing the runtime issues that make testing linux-next challenging and focusing on code that's about to be pulled by Linus.

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Bootc 1.1.0 released

화, 2024/10/22 - 1:47오전

Version 1.1.0 of the bootc utility for performing transactional, in-place operating system updates using Open Container Initative (OCI) images, has been released. This release "officially stabilizes all APIs" for bootc and includes a number of bug fixes. LWN covered bootc in June.

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[$] Python PGP proposal poses packaging puzzles

화, 2024/10/22 - 12:08오전

Sigstore is a project that is meant to simplify and improve the process of signing, verifying, and protecting software. It is a relatively new project, declared "generally available" in 2022. Python is an early adopter of sigstore; it started providing signatures for CPython artifacts with Python 3.11 in 2022. This is in addition to the OpenPGP signatures it has been providing since at least 2001. Now, Seth Michael Larson—the Python Software Foundation (PSF) security developer-in-residence—would like to deprecate the PGP signature and move to sigstore exclusively by next year. If that happens, it will involve some changes in the way that Linux distributions verify Python releases, since none of the major distributions have processes for working with sigstore.

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Security updates for Monday

월, 2024/10/21 - 11:16오후
Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk, chromium, php-horde-mime-viewer, and php-horde-turba), Fedora (apache-commons-io, buildah, chromium, containers-common, libarchive, libdigidocpp, oath-toolkit, podman, rust-hyper-rustls, rust-reqwest, rust-rustls-native-certs, rust-rustls-native-certs0.7, rust-tonic, rust-tonic-build, rust-tonic-types, rust-tower, rust-tower-http, rust-tower-http0.5, rust-tower0.4, thunderbird, and unbound), SUSE (buildah, chromedriver, chromium, element-desktop, element-web, jetty-annotations, nodejs-electron, php7, php74, php8, podman, python3-virtualbox, qemu, thunderbird, and valkey), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode).
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A vulnerability in the Guix build system

월, 2024/10/21 - 10:40오후

The Guix project has disclosed a security vulnerability in the build daemon that the distribution uses to build and install software locally. The vulnerability allows an existing unprivileged user to get access to a setuid binary, and from there potentially interfere with any other software built or installed on the computer. The project recommends upgrading the guix daemon now, to avoid the issue.

This exploit requires the ability to start a derivation build and the ability to run arbitrary code with access to the store in the root PID namespace on the machine the build occurs on. As such, this represents an increased risk primarily to multi-user systems and systems using dedicated privilege-separation users for various daemons: without special sandboxing measures, any process of theirs can take advantage of this vulnerability.
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Kernel prepatch 6.12-rc4

월, 2024/10/21 - 7:48오전
Linus has released 6.12-rc4 for testing. "I'm not happy with how big this is - it's probably far from the biggest rc4 ever, but it _is_ the biggest rc4 we've had in the 6.x series at least in number of commits."
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[$] The long road to lazy preemption

금, 2024/10/18 - 11:25오후
The kernel's CPU scheduler currently offers several preemption modes that implement a range of tradeoffs between system throughput and response time. Back in September 2023, a discussion on scheduling led to the concept of "lazy preemption", which could simplify scheduling in the kernel while providing better results. Things went quiet for a while, but lazy preemption has returned in the form of this patch series from Peter Zijlstra. While the concept appears to work well, there is still a fair amount of work to be done.
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