Security Leftovers

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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ipython), Fedora (kernel and usbview), Gentoo (webkit-gtk), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Red Hat (kpatch-patch and samba), Scientific Linux (samba), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (kernel and samba), and Ubuntu (samba).
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Linux Firmware Updating Growth Continues Amid Security Updates
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for delivering firmware updates with the fwupd client for system and component firmware updates from Linux continues experiencing massive growth. Q4'2021 by far saw the most usage ever and that has continued into 2022 with serving more than two million firmware downloads the past month.
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New Samba Bug Allows Remote Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code as Root
Samba has issued software updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the highest privileges on affected installations.
Chief among them is CVE-2021-44142, which impacts all versions of Samba before 4.13.17 and concerns an out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in the VFS module "vfs_fruit" that provides compatibility with Apple SMB clients.
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The Linux Foundation Releases The State of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and Cybersecurity Readiness Research
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The Linux Foundation Releases The State of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and Cybersecurity Readiness Research - Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, in partnership with OpenSSF, SPDX, and OpenChain, today announced the availability of the first in a series of research projects to understand the challenges and opportunities for securing software supply chains. “The State of Software Bill of Materials and Cybersecurity Readiness” reports on the extent of organizational SBOM readiness and adoption tied to cybersecurity efforts. The study comes on the heels of both the U.S. Administration’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and the recent White House Open Source Security Summit. Its timing coincides with increasing recognition across the globe of the importance of identifying software components and helping accelerate response to newly discovered software vulnerabilities.
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Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use
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Enhancing Supply Chain Security for Embedded Systems: Renode Dashboard for Zephyr RTOS Adds New Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Capabilities by Default - Linux.com [Ed: LF works for monopolies (sponsors). Sometimes, just sometimes, that work also helps Linux and its users. Sometimes…]
A Software Bill of Materials (or SBOM) makes the information about the software components running on a system available. Transparency and summarization are needed in embedded systems with resource constraints and where updates may have significant deployment or recall costs.
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OpenSSF Launches Alpha-Omega Project With $5M Investment From Microsoft And Google [Ed: Linux Foundation takes money from Microsoft again; this isn't about security]
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