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[$] Hardening fixes lead to hard questions

3 hónap 2 hét óta
Kees Cook's "hardening fixes" pull request for the 6.16 merge window looked like a straightforward exercise; it only contained four commits. So just about everybody was surprised when it resulted in Cook being temporarily blocked from his kernel.org account among fears of malicious activity. When the dust settled, though, the red alert was canceled. It turns out, surprisingly, that Git is a tool with which one can inflict substantial self-harm in a moment of inattention.
corbet

[$] OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora

3 hónap 2 hét óta

Software patents and workarounds for them are, once again, causing headaches for open-source projects and users. This time around, Fedora users have been vulnerable to a serious flaw in the OpenH264 library for months—not for want of a fix, but because of the Rube Goldberg machine methodology of distributing the library to Fedora users. The software is open source under a two-clause BSD license; the RPMs are built and signed by Fedora, but the final product is distributed by Cisco, so the company can pick up the tab for license fees. Unfortunately, a breakdown in the process of handing RPMs to Cisco for distribution has left Fedora users vulnerable, and inaction on Fedora's part has left users unaware that they are at risk.

jzb

Security updates for Monday

3 hónap 2 hét óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (espeak-ng, kitty, kmail-account-wizard, krb5, libreoffice, libvpx, net-tools, python-flask-cors, symfony, tcpdf, thunderbird, and twitter-bootstrap3), Fedora (chromium, dropbear, firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, python-tornado, systemd, and thunderbird), Mageia (coreutils, deluge, glib2.0, and redis), Oracle (firefox, kernel, and systemd), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, varnish, varnish:6, and zlib), SUSE (bind, curl, dnsdist, docker, ffmpeg-7, firefox, glibc, golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager, govulncheck-vulndb, icinga2, iputils, java-11-openjdk, java-1_8_0-ibm, kea, kernel, libopenssl-3-devel, libsoup, libxml2, nodejs-electron, open-vm-tools, openbao, perl-Net-Dropbox-API, pluto, poppler, postgresql14, postgresql15, postgresql16, postgresql17, python312-setuptools, runc, s390-tools, skopeo, sqlite3, thunderbird, and unbound), and Ubuntu (apport and libphp-adodb).
jake

j2k25 - OpenBSD Hackathon Japan 2025 (rsadowski@)

3 hónap 2 hét óta
Fresh from the just concluded j2k25 hackathon in Nara, Japan, Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) has published his report on his blog: Week 2: The j2k25 Japan Hackathon

We arrived in Nara during the late afternoon. After checking into our hotel, goda@, my wife and I headed straight to the hack room. My initial thought was to finally do some ports hacking to warm up and create a plan for the upcoming week. I hadn't had much opportunity for focused thinking during our busy week in Tokyo.

As soon as I booted OpenBSD, kn@ appeared. I was genuinely happy to see him again, and we spent the first half hour catching up. Then he mentioned we were about to head to the team event. This completely derailed my planned "first day" approach - instead of keyboard and OpenBSD work, the evening was filled with excellent food, beer, and funny conversations.

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