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LWN Security Resources
LWN.net offers several security-related resources, including the
security alert database, the
vulnerability database, and the weekly
edition security page.
The article index
See the LWN Security Article index for
access to all LWN security articles, organized by topic.
Recent security alerts
View the full security alert database.
Recent vulnerabilities
The following vulnerabilities have recently seen updates or alerts.
| ID | Update | Package(s) |
Description |
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| 373632 |
February 9, 2010 |
bugzilla |
bugzilla: information leak |
| 373631 |
February 9, 2010 |
gnome-screensaver |
gnome-screensaver: lock bypass |
| 373630 |
February 9, 2010 |
HelixPlayer |
HelixPlayer: multiple vulnerabilities |
| 373629 |
February 9, 2010 |
kvm |
kvm: multiple vulnerabilities |
| 353606 |
February 9, 2010 |
bugzilla |
bugzilla: SQL injection |
View the full vulnerability database.
Recent LWN.net security pages
Here are the most recent LWN.net security pages, with a comprehensive roundup of
a week's worth security-related information.
| Date | Contents |
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| Feb 03, 2010 |
Security in the 20-teens; New vulnerabilities in bltk, kernel, moodle, zabbix,... |
| Jan 27, 2010 |
Encrypting users' web data with Grendel; New vulnerabilities in acroread, dokuwiki, kernel, phpgroupware,... |
| Jan 20, 2010 |
BackTrack 4: the security professional's toolbox; New vulnerabilities in bind, glibc, gzip, kernel,... |
| Jan 13, 2010 |
SSH: passwords or keys?; New vulnerabilities in firefox, kernel, pdns-recursor, sendmail,... |
| Jan 06, 2010 |
GSM encryption crack made public; New vulnerabilities in automake, kernel, NetworkManager, wireshark,... |
| Dec 23, 2009 |
Linux malware: an incident and some solutions; New vulnerabilities in condor, drupal, ganeti, rails,... |
| Dec 16, 2009 |
TCP cookie transactions; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, cacti, firefox, kernel,... |
| Dec 09, 2009 |
Pogoplug makes internet data sharing easy; New vulnerabilities in grub2, kernel, kvm, ntp,... |
| Dec 02, 2009 |
On the importance of return codes; New vulnerabilities in awstats, bind, kdelibs, php,... |
| Nov 24, 2009 |
Firefox locks down the components directory; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, opera, php, qemu,... |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
TLS renegotiation vulnerability; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, java, qt, wordpress,... |
| Nov 11, 2009 |
What lessons can be learned from the iPhone worms?; New vulnerabilities in cups, drupal6, java, QtWebKit,... |
| Nov 04, 2009 |
Chrome reflective XSS protection; New vulnerabilities in firefox, kernel, mahara, wireshark,... |
| Oct 28, 2009 |
"Evil Maid" attack against disk encryption; New vulnerabilities in firefox, kernel, poppler, sahana,... |
| Oct 21, 2009 |
Distributed brute force ssh attacks; New vulnerabilities in gd, kernel, pidgin, xpdf,... |
| Oct 14, 2009 |
TorProxy and Shadow; New vulnerabilities in deltarpm, graphicsmagick, phpMyAdmin, Django,... |
| Oct 07, 2009 |
LPC: Three sessions from the security track; New vulnerabilities in elinks, kernel, openoffice, samba,... |
| Sep 30, 2009 |
BruCON: Can we trust cryptography?; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, dovecot, kvm, php,... |
| Sep 23, 2009 |
LinuxCon: Secure virtualization with sVirt; New vulnerabilities in apache, bugzilla, drupal, webkit,... |
| Sep 16, 2009 |
All the malware that's fit to print; New vulnerabilities in firefox, kde, nginx, wireshark,... |
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