Wednesday, March 17th, 2021

Time	Event
3:22p	Security updates for Wednesday Security updates have been issued by Debian (shadow, tor, and velocity), Fedora (gsoap, qt5-qtsvg, and switchboard-plug-bluetooth), Mageia (batik, chromium-browser-stable, glibc, ksh, and microcode), openSUSE (389-ds, connman, freeradius-server, froxlor, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-1_1, postgresql12, and python-markdown2), Red Hat (bind, curl, kernel, nss and nss-softokn, perl, python, and tomcat), Scientific Linux (ipa, kernel, and pki-core), SUSE (glib2 and velocity), and Ubuntu (containerd). (Comment on this)
4:30p	[$] Software platforms for open-source projects and foundations Open-source projects have many non-technical needs as they grow. But, running a FOSS non-profit organization for supporting these projects is a lot of work, as anyone involved in such an organization will attest. These days, some software platforms, such as LFX from the Linux Foundation and Open Collective, are in development to provide important services, such as crowdfunding, to projects and other organizations. These platforms have the potential to improve both the quality and range of services available to projects. (Comment on this)
5:59p	A set of stable kernels Stable kernels 5.11.7, 5.10.24, 5.4.106, 4.19.181, 4.14.226, 4.9.262, and 4.4.262 have been released. There are important fixes throughout the tree and users should upgrade. (Comment on this)
10:30p	[$] Handling brute force attacks in the kernel A number of different attacks against Linux systems rely on brute-force techniques using the fork() system call, so a new Linux security module (LSM), called "Brute", has been created to detect and thwart such attacks. Repeated fork() calls can be used for various types of attacks, such as exploiting the Stack Clash vulnerability or Heartbleed-style flaws. Version 6 of the Brute patch set was recently posted and looks like it might be heading toward the mainline. (Comment on this)

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