The Xubuntu 20.04 LTS wallpaper contest is open for entries until March 13, 2020. Six winning entries will ship as part of the Xubuntu 20.04 release. This post, Xubuntu 20.04 Wallpaper Contest is Now Open for Entries, was written by Joey Sneddon and f… Continue...

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Continue Reading — openSUSE: 2020:0261-1: moderate: python-azure-agent>

The upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 release will ship with a Snap version of Ubuntu Software app by default. Ubuntu’s default software management tool joins the desktop calculator and system monitor utility as pre-seeded Snap apps starting […] This post, Ubuntu Switches to a Software Store Snap for...

An issue has been found in libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, an OpenID Connect authentication module for Apache. Due to insufficient validatation of URLs an Open Redirect vulnerability Continue Reading — Debian LTS: DLA-2130-1: libapache2-mod-auth-openidc security>

An issues has been found in firebird2.5, an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0. As UDFs can be used for a remote authenticated code execution (as user firebird), UDFs have been disabled in the default configuration Continue Reading — Debian LTS: DLA-2129-1: firebird2.5 security update>

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities: LTE RRC dissector memory leak. WiMax DLMAP dissector crash. Continue Reading — Mageia 2020-0111: wireshark security update>

This update is based on upstream 5.5.6 and fixes atleast the following security vulnerability: A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for the L2 guest when nested(=1) virtualization is enabled. In the Continue Reading — Mageia 2020-0110: kernel security update>

Updated hiredis packages fix security vulnerability: async.c and dict.c in libhiredis.a in hiredis through 0.14.0 allow a NULL pointer dereference because malloc return values are unchecked (CVE-2020-7105). Continue Reading — Mageia 2020-0109: hiredis security update>

Updated rsync packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that rsync incorrectly handled pointer arithmetic in zlib. An attacker could use this issue to cause rsync to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary… Continue Reading — Mageia 2020-0108: rsync security...

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes System (Amazon EKS) is now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.  Continue Reading — Amazon EKS now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the...