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:

June 13, 2024	Improving control-flow integrity for Linux on RISC-V
June 12, 2024	Memory sealing for the GNU C Library
May 8, 2024	Securing Git repositories with gittuf
April 30, 2024	Security patterns and anti-patterns in embedded development
April 23, 2024	A change in direction for security-module stacking?
April 10, 2024	Continued attacks on HTTP/2
April 2, 2024	How the XZ backdoor works
March 12, 2024	Insecurity and Python pickles
February 21, 2024	Sudo and its alternatives
February 14, 2024	A turning point for CVE numbers
February 12, 2024	Another runc container breakout
February 8, 2024	Pitchforks for RDSEED
January 31, 2024	OpenBSD system-call pinning
January 26, 2024	Better handling of integer wraparound in the kernel
January 10, 2024	The odd saga of CVE-2012-5639
January 3, 2024	Smuggling email inside of email
December 6, 2023	A schism in the OpenPGP world
December 5, 2023	Supplementing CVEs with !CVEs
October 19, 2023	Toward safer GNU C Library tunable handling
October 11, 2023	Remote execution in the GNOME tracker

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-86e4115138	chromium	2024-06-14
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:2031-1	podman	2024-06-14
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:2030-1	libaom	2024-06-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-f3e0255c75	cyrus-imapd	2024-06-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-5acee8c47f	chromium	2024-06-14
Mageia	MGASA-2024-0217	golang	2024-06-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-123f2b3666	cyrus-imapd	2024-06-14
Mageia	MGASA-2024-0218	poppler	2024-06-14
CentOS	CESA-2024:2913	thunderbird	2024-06-13
CentOS	CESA-2024:3669	less	2024-06-13
Red Hat	RHSA-2024:3926-01	expat	2024-06-13
Red Hat	RHSA-2024:3929-01	dnsmasq	2024-06-13
CentOS	CESA-2024:3591	389-ds-base	2024-06-13
CentOS	CESA-2024:3304	libreoffice	2024-06-13
Debian	DLA-3826-1	cups	2024-06-13
CentOS	CESA-2024:2881	firefox	2024-06-13
CentOS	CESA-2024:3741	bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, and dhcp	2024-06-13
CentOS	CESA-2024:3741	bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, and dhcp	2024-06-13
CentOS	CESA-2024:3760	ipa	2024-06-13
Ubuntu	USN-6829-1	libmatio	2024-06-13

View the full security alert database.