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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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| 498872 |
May 25, 2012 |
request-tracker3.8 |
request-tracker3.8: multiple vulnerabilities |
| 424384 |
May 25, 2012 |
request-tracker3.6 |
request-tracker: unsalted password hashing |
| 497608 |
May 24, 2012 |
sudo |
sudo: privilege escalation |
| 498212 |
May 24, 2012 |
libxml2 |
libxml2: code execution |
| 494442 |
May 24, 2012 |
firefox, thunderbird |
mozilla: multiple vulnerabilities |
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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| May 23, 2012 |
openSUSE security policy; New vulnerabilities in chromium, libxml2, pidgin-otr, sudo, ... |
| May 16, 2012 |
A ".secure" top-level domain; New vulnerabilities in chromium, connman, ffmpeg, roundcubemail, ... |
| May 09, 2012 |
Internet censorship and OONI; New vulnerabilities in argyllcms, kernel, php, python3, ... |
| May 02, 2012 |
Cybersecurity and CISPA; New vulnerabilities in bugzilla, imagemagick, nginx, samba, ... |
| Apr 25, 2012 |
Quantum random numbers; New vulnerabilities in dropbear, kernel, Mozilla products, wicd, ... |
| Apr 18, 2012 |
The perils of desktop tracking; New vulnerabilities in gajim, kernel, moodle, swftools, ... |
| Apr 11, 2012 |
SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default; New vulnerabilities in chromium, puppet, samba, tiff, ... |
| Apr 04, 2012 |
Libsecret revealed; New vulnerabilities in chromium, freeradius, phpmyadmin, rpm, ... |
| Mar 28, 2012 |
OpenOffice and document encryption portability; New vulnerabilities in chromium, freetype, openssl, php, ... |
| Mar 21, 2012 |
Shadow hardening; New vulnerabilities in chromium, kernel, libpng, systemd, ... |
| Mar 14, 2012 |
CAP_SYS_ADMIN: the new root; New vulnerabilities in freetype, glibc, Mozilla products, python-pam, ... |
| Mar 07, 2012 |
Github incident spawns Rails security debate; New vulnerabilities in imagemagick, kernel, lightdm, python-sqlalchemy, ... |
| Feb 29, 2012 |
Fedora's Network Zones; New vulnerabilities in csound, glibc, kernel, samba, ... |
| Feb 23, 2012 |
Capsicum; New vulnerabilities in busybox, chromium, java, libvorbis, ... |
| Feb 15, 2012 |
Tor's obfuscated bridges; New vulnerabilities in cvs, java, kernel, mysql, ... |
| Feb 08, 2012 |
Debian and Suhosin; New vulnerabilities in ghostscript, kernel, moodle, php, ... |
| Feb 01, 2012 |
Format string vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in chromium, curl, ktsuss, sudo, ... |
| Jan 25, 2012 |
Security processes and the X.org flaw; New vulnerabilities in bugzilla, emacs, kernel, xkeyboard-config, ... |
| Jan 18, 2012 |
SOPA and PIPA; New vulnerabilities in kernel, libxml2, openssl, wordpress, ... |
| Jan 11, 2012 |
Denial of service via hash collisions; New vulnerabilities in apache, chromium, kernel, openssl, ... |
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