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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
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| 12:55a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 16, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 16, 2021 is available. | | 1:22p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (sssd), Fedora (libtpms and vim), openSUSE (kernel and php7-pear), Oracle (kernel), Slackware (curl), and Ubuntu (libgcrypt20 and squashfs-tools). | | 3:09p |
[$] The Rust for Linux project The first ever Rust for Linux conference, known as Kangrejos, got underway on September 13. Organizer Miguel Ojeda used the opening session to give an overview of why there is interest in using Rust in the kernel, where the challenges are, and what the current status is. The talk and following discussion provided a good overview of what is driving this initiative and where some of the sticking points might be. | | 3:42p |
Travis CI flaw exposed secrets of thousands of open source projects (ars technica) This
ars technica article describes a problem with the Travis
continuous-integration service:
A security flaw in Travis CI potentially exposed the secrets of
thousands of open source projects that rely on the hosted
continuous integration service. Travis CI is a software-testing
solution used by over 900,000 open source projects and 600,000
users. A vulnerability in the tool made it possible for secure
environment variables—signing keys, access credentials, and API
tokens of all public open source projects—to be exfiltrated.
Any project storing secrets in this service would be well advised to
replace them. | | 5:49p |
Four stable kernels Four new stable kernels, 5.14.5, 5.13.18, 5.10.66, and 5.4.147, have been released.
This, and the other stable kernels released today, consist of only some
reverts to solve some reported problems with the last round of stable
releases. Upgrading is not required, but highly recommended.
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