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:

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
July 20, 2023	Much ado about SBAT
April 14, 2023	TOTP authentication with free software
February 21, 2023	Passwordless authentication with FIDO2—beyond just the web

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:0970-1	zziplib	2024-03-22
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:0973-1	tiff	2024-03-22
Debian	DLA-3768-1	pillow	2024-03-22
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:0974-1	jsch-agent-proxy	2024-03-22
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:0975-1	kernel	2024-03-22
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:0976-1	kernel	2024-03-22
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:0972-1	jbcrypt, trilead-ssh2	2024-03-22
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:0971-1	firefox	2024-03-22
Mageia	MGASA-2024-0083	ffmpeg	2024-03-22
Mageia	MGASA-2024-0081	apache-mod_auth_openidc	2024-03-22
Mageia	MGASA-2024-0080	nodejs-tough-cookie	2024-03-22
Mageia	MGASA-2024-0079	libuv	2024-03-22
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-ee43b83290	webkitgtk	2024-03-22
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-082155d6b7	ovn	2024-03-22
Mageia	MGASA-2024-0082	fontforge	2024-03-22
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-453ee0b3b9	apptainer	2024-03-22
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-7c11edcd20	ovn	2024-03-22
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-ec79868e3b	chromium	2024-03-22
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-1439ec2069	libreswan	2024-03-21
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-c1fabee30e	grub2	2024-03-21

View the full security alert database.