Open-source News

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections  Ars Technica

Red Hat Warns Fedora Linux 40/41 and Rawhide Users About Critical Security Flaw  9to5Linux

Beware! Backdoor found in XZ utilities used by many Linux distros (CVE-2024-3094)  Help Net Security

An ancient Linux flaw might be opening up users to dangerous cyberattacks  TechRadar

AMD GPUOpen's Orochi project as a reminder is the effort for allowing dynamic runtime switching between the Radeon HIP and NVIDIA CUDA APIs to allow better cross-GPU portability. Today marks the availability of Orochi 2.0 for enhancing this API to target NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP hardware...

Red Hat warns of backdoor in XZ tools used by most Linux distros  BleepingComputer

Linux Foundation Backs 'Valkey' Open-Source Fork of Redis  Datanami

Red Hat today issued an "urgent security alert" for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users over XZ. Yes, the XZ tools and libraries for this compression format. Some malicious code was added to XZ 5.6.0/5.6.1 that could allow unauthorized remote system access...

Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community  Datanami

DinodasRAT Linux malware leveraged in global cyberattacks  SC Media

Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads  Phoronix

Now that the Linux 6.9 merge window is past I've begun testing out this in-development kernel on more hardware platforms in the lab. While some performance boosts like Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" running faster on Linux 6.9 was to be expected given EPP tuning in the new kernel specific to those SoCs, one of the unexpected delights has been seeing AMD 4th Gen EPYC performance with some nice performance gains over Linux 6.8 stable.

Fedora 39 had hoped to use the DNF5 package manager by default as the next iteration of this package management solution for RPM-based distributions. But DNF5 wasn't ready and then delayed to Fedora 41 -- skipping over the Fedora 40 series due to the RHEL 10 branching from it and not wanting the very new DNF5 to be part of that merge. Now the change proposal has been re-filed for introducing DNF5 by default in Fedora 41...

This Linux malware is targeting users in China, Taiwan, and other countries: All the details  The Times of India

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