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Red Hat has issued an urgent security alert today for Fedora Linux 40, Fedora Linux 41, and Fedora Rawhide users about a security flaw (CVE-2024-3094) in the XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 packages that could allow unauthorized remote access via SSH.

A critical vulnerability in Linux XZ Utils (CVE-2024-3094) enables remote system breaches via SSH. Immediate action is required.

A critical vulnerability has been found in the wall command of the util-linux package that poses a severe security threat to Linux systems. This vulnerability, known as WallEscape and tracked as CVE-2024-28085 , has been present in every package version for the past 11 years.

Red Hat in all caps says STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES. Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression library called xz may be present in Fedora Linux 40, 41, and in the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution.…

CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins. A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed it, typically works effortlessly on kernel versions between at least 5.14 and 6.6.14. …

Fedora 41's proposed DNF5 will replace dnf, offering enhanced performance, fewer dependencies, and a Python API wrapper. Approval pending.

Andres Freund discovered that the upstream source tarballs for xz-utils, the XZ-format compression utilities, are compromised and inject malicious code, at build time, into the resulting liblzma5 library.

Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project’s long-time contributors.

Summary: The latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access. Specifically, this code is present in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the libraries. Fedora Linux 40 users may have received version 5.6.0, depending on the timing of system updates. Fedora Rawhide users may have received version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1.

Monit is an open-source monitoring tool that can be used to monitor servers. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the Monit monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

ElkArte is a free and open-source forum software written in PHP language. This tutorial will show you how to install ElkArte on Ubuntu 22.04 with Let's Encrypt SSL.

Caddy is a powerful, yet easy-to-use webserver for Linux. Learn how you can use it for hosting websites and proxies in Ubuntu today.

Samba 4.20 Released with Improved Active Directory Compatibility and New Utilities.

Discover a way to run a Windows 11 machine on a Docker container in your Linux system, such as Ubuntu, Debain, RedHat, Fedora, etc.

Two talks in Switzerland, where GNU's 40th birthday was celebrated last autumn by a then-hairless GNU founder, who underwent cancer treatment

Discover a step-by-step guide to install different DEs, such as KDE, Xfce, LXQt, etc., on the Ubuntu system with practical examples.

Munin is a free, open-source system and powerful network monitoring tool for Linux. This tutorial will show you how to install the Munin monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.2.2 as the second point release to the latest LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series fixing more than 70 bugs.

Java is a powerful programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Over the years, it has become indispensable for developing everything from mobile applications to large-scale enterprise systems. Installing Java on Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution, is a straightforward process that can be accomplished through various methods. This tutorial aims to guide you through the installation of Java on Ubuntu, covering both the installation from the Ubuntu repository and the official Oracle package.

This tutorial teaches you all you need to know about Nix, a powerful package manager for Linux and Unix.