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X.Org Server & XWayland Hit By Four More Security Issues

Phoronix - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 02:56
Last year the X.Org Server disabled byte-swapped clients by default over being a large and known attack surface within the X.Org/XWayland codebase. That's proven itself to further be the case with 3 of 4 new CVEs made public today being around the byte-swapped code...

GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows

Phoronix - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 22:44
David Malcolm of Red Hat's compiler team is out with his annual blog post summarizing the static analysis improvements to find with the upcoming GCC 14 stable compiler release...

Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 22:20
In February was the announcement of the Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD while reaching retail channels in March. This is a very speedy PCIe 5.0 solid-state drive that Crucial recently sent over for our Linux testing and review.

RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 21:59
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has landed support in the RADV Vulkan driver for the Vulkan VK_EXT_device_address_binding_report extension with Mesa 24.1...

Redict 7.3 Released As Fork Of Open-Source Redis

Phoronix - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 21:32
In addition to the Linux Foundation and others starting Valkey as a fork of the open-source Redis following the upstream move to dual source-available licensing, Redict is another new fork getting established...

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