An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available. Continue Reading — SUSE: 2020:2303-1 important: grub2>

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available. Continue Reading — SUSE: 2020:2307-1 important: grub2>

Mozilla Firefox 80 is available to download. The latest release of the famous web browser features modest changes, but adds something exciting on Linux. This post, Firefox 80 Released with Optional GPU Acceleration on Linux is from OMG! Ubuntu!. Do not… Continue Reading — Firefox...

Recently, stories of how insecure Linux is have dominated security news headlines. However, there’s one critical issue with the majority of them: They’re fake news. The underlying problem is incompetent system administrators. Continue Reading — Enough with the Linux security FUD>

A vulnerablity has been found in Chromium and Google Chrome that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. [More…] Continue Reading — Gentoo: GLSA-202008-10: Chromium, Google Chrome: Heap buffer overflow>

Multiple Shadow utilities were installed with setuid permissions, allowing possible root privilege escalation. Continue Reading — Gentoo: GLSA-202008-09: Shadow: Privilege escalation>

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rati… Continue Reading —...

An update for kernel-alt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity r… Continue Reading —...

Several security issues were fixed in PostgreSQL. Continue Reading — Ubuntu 4472-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities>

It was discovered that there was an issue where kmail would default to using unencrypted POP3 communication despite the UI indicating that encryption was in use (CVE-2020-15954). References: Continue Reading — Mageia 2020-0346: kdepim-runtime and kmail-account-wizard security update>