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Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS

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Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS 2026-05-13 at 02:05 By Anamarija Pogorelec Container image security pipelines have spent the past several years pushing toward minimal footprints, hermetic builds, and continuous CVE remediation. The Fedora Project is now applying that same approach to the host operating system. At Red Hat […]

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Chaining two LPEs to get “root”: Most Linux distros vulnerable (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019)

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Chaining two LPEs to get “root”: Most Linux distros vulnerable (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) 2025-06-18 at 14:49 By Zeljka Zorz Qualys researchers have unearthed two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) that can be exploited in tandem to achieve root access on most Linux distributions “with minimal effort.” About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) CVE-2025-6018 affects the Pluggable

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Nobara Linux 42 brings performance boost and better hardware support

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Nobara Linux 42 brings performance boost and better hardware support 2025-05-14 at 12:08 By Help Net Security The Nobara Project has released a new version of its Linux distribution, bringing updated packages, performance improvements, and a few visual tweaks aimed at making life easier for users who want a system that works well out of

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XZ Utils backdoor update: Which Linux distros are affected and what can you do?

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XZ Utils backdoor update: Which Linux distros are affected and what can you do? 2024-03-31 at 21:01 By Zeljka Zorz The news that XZ Utils, a compression utility present in most Linux distributions, has been backdoored by a supposedly trusted maintainer has rattled the open-source software community on Friday, mere hours until the beginning of

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Beware! Backdoor found in XZ utilities used by many Linux distros (CVE-2024-3094)

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Beware! Backdoor found in XZ utilities used by many Linux distros (CVE-2024-3094) 2024-03-29 at 20:31 By Zeljka Zorz A vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094) in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utilities included in most Linux distributions, may “enable a malicious actor to break sshd authentication and gain unauthorized access to the entire system remotely,” Red Hat warns.

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GNOME users at risk of RCE attack (CVE-2023-43641)

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GNOME users at risk of RCE attack (CVE-2023-43641) 10/10/2023 at 14:32 By Zeljka Zorz 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 by GitHub security researcher Kevin Backhouse,

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“Looney Tunables” bug allows root access on Linux distros (CVE-2023-4911)

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“Looney Tunables” bug allows root access on Linux distros (CVE-2023-4911) 05/10/2023 at 16:17 By Zeljka Zorz 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”, CVE-2023-4911 is a buffer overflow vulnerability

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