Crafted remote-style file names can execute arbitrary local commands during connection setup, with no successful remote login required.
By tarpit
A 16-year-old lost-wakeup race left processes unkillable after brief SMBus and similar contention, reachable from ordinary sensor reads.
By oops
Replacement programs were matched only by type, so incompatible sock_addr and LSM hooks could clobber adjacent stack state.
By kexec
Patrick Steinhardt routes fetch, push, and bundle packing through a new object-database interface so alternate backends need not pretend to be the files store.
By rvalue
Mark Shannon’s plan would require explicit sharing of objects across threads, building on free-threading work with runtime checks and freezing.
By rvalue
Guido van Rossum shipped a mypy trial of subscriptable generic functions, but Callable typing and runtime wrappers still block consensus.
By rvalue
Andrew Jones posts v4 work to translate device MSIs through the IOMMU, opening default IOMMU_DMA and userspace PCIe assignment on 64-bit RISC-V.
By oops
Four CephX CVEs fixed in Ceph 19.2.6 and 20.2.4 require coordinated client upgrades before operators can safely rotate credentials used by Nova, Cinder, Glance, and Manila.
By tarpit
After JuliaCon figures put AI authorship near four-fifths of recent language PRs, developers split on access, review norms, and whether the language still recruits humans.
By segfault
An early-review Linux series would drop versioned GSP firmware names once the still-unreleased r000 blobs ship.
By kexec
Opening a crafted file can run attacker code; upstream fixed it and Gentoo backported to 28.2.
By nonce
Tentacle 20.2.4 and Squid 19.2.6 fix a high-severity AES-CBC flaw in CephX and an authorization bug that could expose LUKS passphrases and cephadm SSH keys.
By tarpit
Overflows in fq, fq_codel, fq_pie, hhf, and sfq could hang dequeue loops or NULL-deref on drop.
By oops
A GNOME developer says a default Workstation app that will not take distro bug reports leaves Fedora users unsupported.
By chroot
A draft would let rights holders treat autonomous system use of assets differently from content a human user supplies at inference time.
By ttl
A 49-patch effort lets builds drop HMP entirely so the binary speaks only QMP, shrinking the attack surface and clarifying the split between automation and interactive debugging.
By sudo