LWN Security Resources
LWN.net offers several security-related resources, including the
security alert database
and the weekly
edition security page.
The article index
See the LWN Security Article index for access to all LWN security articles, organized by topic.
Recent LWN.net security articles
LWN runs security-oriented content regularly. Some of our more recent articles in this area include:
April 23, 2024 A change in direction for security-module stacking? April 10, 2024 Continued attacks on HTTP/2 April 2, 2024 How the XZ backdoor works March 12, 2024 Insecurity and Python pickles February 21, 2024 Sudo and its alternatives February 14, 2024 A turning point for CVE numbers February 12, 2024 Another runc container breakout February 8, 2024 Pitchforks for RDSEED January 31, 2024 OpenBSD system-call pinning January 26, 2024 Better handling of integer wraparound in the kernel January 10, 2024 The odd saga of CVE-2012-5639 January 3, 2024 Smuggling email inside of email December 6, 2023 A schism in the OpenPGP world December 5, 2023 Supplementing CVEs with !CVEs October 19, 2023 Toward safer GNU C Library tunable handling October 11, 2023 Remote execution in the GNOME tracker October 4, 2023 BPF and security September 19, 2023 The European Cyber Resilience Act September 13, 2023 The bogus CVE problem August 16, 2023 Kernel security reporting for distributions
Recent security alerts
Distribution ID Package Date Ubuntu USN-6750-1 thunderbird 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-6dab59bd47 curl 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-ce2eefc399 kubernetes 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-a46df5ba2f xen 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-662a8b6005 kubernetes 2024-04-25 Red Hat RHSA-2024:2044-01 gnutls 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-0489e7ba1e filezilla 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-0489e7ba1e libfilezilla 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-4357ec611d xen 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-81c9a3fe50 thunderbird 2024-04-25 Red Hat RHSA-2024:2055-01 buildah 2024-04-25 Red Hat RHSA-2024:2045-01 unbound 2024-04-25 Fedora FEDORA-2024-c8d21fe399 flatpak 2024-04-25 Red Hat RHSA-2024:2041-01 tigervnc 2024-04-24 Oracle ELSA-2024-1998 libreswan 2024-04-24 Red Hat RHSA-2024:2042-01 tigervnc 2024-04-24 Fedora FEDORA-2024-bb70b21754 abseil-cpp 2024-04-24 Oracle ELSA-2024-1940 owO: thunderbird 2024-04-24 Red Hat RHSA-2024:2039-01 tigervnc 2024-04-24 Ubuntu USN-6748-1 ruby-sanitize 2024-04-24
View the full security alert database.