Debian and Security Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 31, 2025

• Ravi Dwivedi: Installing Debian With Btrfs and Encryption

  In this tutorial, I will cover how I installed Debian with Btrfs and disk encryption, along with creating subvolumes @ for root and @home for /home so that I can use Timeshift to create snapshots. These snapshots are kept on the same disk where Debian is installed, and the use-case is to roll back to a working system in case I mess up something or to recover an accidentally deleted file.

• Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar H. Gunderson: Bruteforcing pwgen passwords

  I needed to bruteforce some passwords that I happened to know that were generated with the default mode (“pronouncable”) of pwgen, so I spent a fair amount of time writing software to help. It went through a whole lot of iterations and ended up being more efficient than I had ever assumed would be possible (although it's still nowhere near as efficient as it should ideally be). So now I'm sharing it with you. If you have IPv6 and can reach git.sesse.net, that is.

  I'm pasting the entire README below. Remember to use it for ethical purposes.

• LWN ☛ Security updates for Friday

  Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (aide, fence-agents, firefox, kernel-rt, python-cryptography, and thunderbird), Debian (golang-github-gin-contrib-cors, libxml2, and udisks2), Fedora (chromium), Oracle (postgresql16, postgresql:16, python3.11, and thunderbird), Red Hat (lz4 and mpfr), SUSE (chromium, docker, dpkg, firefox, gdk-pixbuf, git, git, git-lfs, obs-scm-bridge, python-PyYAML, gnutls, kernel, libarchive, libxml2, net-tools, netty, perl-Crypt-CBC, polkit, postgresql14, postgresql15, sqlite3, thunderbird, tomcat10, and udisks2), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gkeop,

  linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15,

  linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia,

  linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.14, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.14, linux-raspi,

  linux-realtime, linux-realtime-6.14, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-lowlatency,

  linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-azure, linux-fips, linux-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-gke, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8,

  linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-raspi, linux-gke, linux-kvm, linux-oem-6.14, linux-realtime, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-realtime, linux-raspi-realtime, openldap, and udisks2).