LWN Security Resources

LWN.net offers several security-related resources, including the security alert 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 LWN.net security articles

LWN runs security-oriented content regularly. Some of our more recent articles in this area include:

March 11, 2026	California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
March 11, 2026	HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing
February 25, 2026	An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol
February 16, 2026	Open source security in spite of AI
January 21, 2026	Responses to gpg.fail
December 8, 2025	Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS
October 29, 2025	Retrieving pixels from Android phones with Pixnapping
September 24, 2025	CHERI with a Linux on top
August 25, 2025	Linux's missing CRL infrastructure
August 11, 2025	StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
July 10, 2025	Anubis sends AI scraperbots to a well-deserved fate
June 25, 2025	Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy
May 28, 2025	Glibc project revisits infrastructure security
May 28, 2025	System-wide encrypted DNS
April 30, 2025	The mystery of the Mailman 2 CVEs
February 14, 2025	Fighting the AI scraperbot scourge
January 21, 2025	A look at the recent rsync vulnerability
November 19, 2024	Book review: Run Your Own Mail Server
November 12, 2024	Progress on toolchain security features
November 11, 2024	The top open-source security events in 2024

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2026:0860-1	python-maturin	2026-03-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2026:0859-1	python-aiohttp	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:4024	postgresql:13	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:3896	postgresql:15	2026-03-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2026-c0123ede74	perl-Crypt-SysRandom-XS	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:4059	postgresql:15	2026-03-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2026-c1c45c4b2d	systemd	2026-03-11
Ubuntu	USN-8083-1	python-geopandas	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:4146	python-pyasn1	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:4063	postgresql:16	2026-03-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2026-7b9874a01f	perl-Crypt-SysRandom-XS	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:4235	nginx:1.26	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:4064	postgresql:12	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:3967	libvpx	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:3730	postgresql	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:3963	kernel	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:3964	kernel-rt	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:3753	osbuild-composer	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:3898	osbuild-composer	2026-03-11
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2026:3938	nfs-utils	2026-03-11

View the full security alert database.