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Another Day, Another Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux: Meet Fragnesia  Hackster.io

Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that's finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge...

New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL  Phoronix

Introduced to the Linux kernel last year was Control-flow Enforcement Technology "CET" virtualization for modern AMD and Intel CPUs. This complements CET that has existed in Linux for quite some time but it's new now to the KVM virtualization world, but some yet to be diagnosed problems are causing some hosts to hang when making use of this virtualization security feature...

Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang  Phoronix

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access  The Register

Steam Beta brings Big Picture Mode tweaks, Linux improvements and Steam Controller fixes  GamingOnLinux

New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges  BleepingComputer

New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges  BleepingComputer

Germany Awards €1.3 Million to KDE for Plasma Desktop Improvements and Linux Sovereignty Work  gHacks

PoC Exploit Released for Fragnesia Linux Flaw Enabling Root Access  gbhackers.com

1. New Fragnesia Linux Kernel LPE Grants Root Access via Page Cache Corruption  The Hacker News
2. New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation  SecurityWeek
3. Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users  Phoronix

BudsLink Brings Advanced Earbud Controls to Linux Desktops  Linux Journal

Fragnesia Is Yet Another Local Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel  9to5Linux

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AGL combines Xen, Zephyr, and Linux containers in new SDV platform  LinuxGizmos.com

KDE: €1 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund To Strengthen Open Source Infrastructure  Pulse 2.0

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux open-source graphics driver team isn't done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that was announced today. These original GCN graphics cards with pending patches to the AMDGPU kernel driver and Mesa user-space can now allow for DRM format modifiers...

Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers  Phoronix

The PanVK Vulkan driver and Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware is now supporting the latest "v14" hardware GPU hardware with the Arm Mali G1-Pro now being advertised as supported...