Security Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2025

• LWN ☛ Security updates for Monday

  Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (postgresql16, postgresql:16, python3.11, and thunderbird), Debian (firebird4.0, libcommons-lang3-java, mbedtls, nodejs, openvpn, and ruby-saml), Fedora (cef, chromium, docker-buildx, exiv2, firefox, rocm-rpp, and udisks2), Oracle (postgresql:16), Red Hat (fence-agents, firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, httpd, kernel, kernel-rt, libarchive, libxml2, multiple packages, postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python3.11, python3.12, python39:3.9, and thunderbird), Slackware (udisks2), SUSE (go-sendxmpp, helm, ImageMagick, javamail, jq, kea, kernel, libarchive, libsoup, libssh, libxml2, openssl-3, postgresql14, postgresql15, python, python-future, systemd, and xz), and Ubuntu (open-vm-tools and python2.7).

• Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

  • Neowin ☛ Why backdoored Windows anti-virus scanners flag GNU/Linux ISOs as virus, and what to do

    Have any of your GNU/Linux ISOs been flagged up as malware by anti-virus software? If so, here's what you should do.

• Standards/Consortia

  • APNIC ☛ Governance of the DNS root zone

    The arrangements regarding the composition and organization of the provision and operation of authoritative root servers are one of the more long-lasting aspects of the public Internet. In the late 1980s, Jon Postel, as the IANA, worked with a small set of interested organizations to provide this service. It was informally arranged, without contracts and without payment of any form. It appears to me that the selection parameters used by Jon were a combination of interest in undertaking the task, expertise and capability in performing the task, and geographic diversity in the set of operating root nameservers covering the major areas of Internet deployment at the time.

  • The BSD Cafe Journal ☛ Why “caffè” may not be “caffè”

    Every time when I think I finally “got” Unicode, I get kicked in the back by this rabbit hole. 😆 However, IMHO it is important to recognise that when moving data and files between operating systems and programs that you’re better off knowing some of the pitfalls. So I’m sharing something I experienced when I transferred a file to my FreeBSD Play-Around notebook. So let’s assume a little story…