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Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 “will come with full support for OEM installations,” according to their monthly newsletter, so Linux Mint “can be pre-installed on computers which are sold throughout the World. It’s a very important feature and it’s one of …
They create a dedicated desktop icon for your favorite web-based application — a simplified browser that opens to that single URL. Yet while Linux usually offers the same functionality as other operating systems, “Peppermint OS’s Ice and its succ…
Curl v8.4.0 is out, and fixes – among other things – a high-severity SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545). Appropriate patches for some older curl versions have been released, too. Preparation for the security updates …
If you’re running GNOME on you Linux system(s), you are probably open to remote code execution attacks via a booby-trapped file, thanks to a memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2023-43641) in the libcue library. About CVE-2023-43641 Discovered b…
Thursday ZDNet reported…
As security holes go, CVE-2023-4911, aka “Looney Tunables,” isn’t horrid. It has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System score of 7.8, which is ranked as important, not critical.
On the other hand, this GNU C Library’s (glib…
A vulnerability (CVE-2023-4911) in the GNU C Library (aka “glibc”) can be exploited by attackers to gain root privileges on many popular Linux distributions, according to Qualys researchers. About CVE-2023-4911 Dubbed “Looney Tunables…
The Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild and patched by Google a few weeks ago has a new ID (CVE-2023-5129) and a description that tells the whole story: the vulnerability is not in Chrome, but the libwebp library, which is used by many popular applic…
This week saw the public beta-testing release of “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Besides listing download locations, its release notes also list out the project’s three goals:
– Ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experie…
Debian blog: Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named “The Debian Linux Release.” He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. I…
A variety of Intel Core processors and the devices using them are vulnerable to “Downfall”, a new class of attacks made possible by CVE-2022-40982, which enables attackers to access and steal sensitive data such as passwords, encryption key…