Open-source News

Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2024-1086) Alert  Security Boulevard

Merged on Thursday to GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 Wayland protocol that is used to handle the global migration to explicit synchronization...

GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland  Phoronix

New Linux Bug Could Lead to User Password Leaks and Clipboard Hijacking  The Hacker News

Intel is ending out the month and quarter with the latest update to its open-source Compute Runtime and Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) code that enables OpenCL and Level Zero support on Linux systems and is also used by their Windows driver too...

Intel Releases Its March 2024 Open-Source Linux GPU Compute Stack Update  Phoronix

GTA 5 on Nintendo Switch and Linux may become a reality soon thanks to modders  Sportskeeda

Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

CodeWeavers' Elizabeth Figura has been working on the NTSYNC driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel in order to help the performance of various Windows games running on Linux by the likes of Wine / Valve's Proton (Steam Play). The third iteration of that driver was posted overnight as it seeks to go into the mainline Linux kernel...

ZimaBoard Turned My Dream of Owning a Homelab into Reality  It's FOSS

Backdoor in utility commonly used by Linux distros risks SSH compromise  SC Media

New Linux Bug Could Lead to User Password Leaks and Clipboard Hijacking  The Hacker News

Ubuntu hit with long-dormant password-leaking bug  The Stack

AWS, Google, Oracle back Redis fork Valkey  The Stack

Kodi Moves to Flatpak for Linux Installations  How-To Geek

Decade-old Linux 'wall' bug helps make fake SUDO prompts, steal passwords  BleepingComputer

Decade-old Linux ‘wall’ bug helps make fake SUDO prompts, steal passwords  BleepingComputer

Linux Foundation Forks the Open Source Redis as 'Valkey'  The New Stack

Oracle Linux Cloud Developer image kickstarts an all-in-one development environment on OCI  Oracle

The “pure” version of Kodi for Ubuntu Linux is dead  BetaNews