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:

October 21, 2024	Python PGP proposal poses packaging puzzles
August 27, 2024	NIST finalizes post-quantum encryption standards
June 13, 2024	Improving control-flow integrity for Linux on RISC-V
June 12, 2024	Memory sealing for the GNU C Library
May 8, 2024	Securing Git repositories with gittuf
April 30, 2024	Security patterns and anti-patterns in embedded development
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

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
Oracle	ELSA-2024-8793	thunderbird	2024-11-05
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:3911-1	govulncheck-vulndb	2024-11-05
Ubuntu	USN-7091-1	ruby3.0, ruby3.2, ruby3.3	2024-11-05
Oracle	ELSA-2024-8798	xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland	2024-11-05
Oracle	ELSA-2024-8790	thunderbird	2024-11-05
Oracle	ELSA-2024-8729	firefox	2024-11-05
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2024:0347-1	chromium	2024-11-05
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2024:0348-1	chromium	2024-11-05
Ubuntu	USN-7083-1	openjpeg2	2024-11-05
Oracle	ELSA-2024-8726	firefox	2024-11-05
Oracle	ELSA-2024-8800	openexr	2024-11-05
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-b07b0b41ec	llama-cpp	2024-11-05
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-2f78bf0769	python-quart	2024-11-05
Fedora	FEDORA-2024-51bff89a25	python-quart	2024-11-05
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2024:8793	thunderbird	2024-11-04
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2024:8790	thunderbird	2024-11-04
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:3904-1	openssl-1_1	2024-11-04
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2024:3905-1	openssl-1_1	2024-11-04
AlmaLinux	ALSA-2024:8726	firefox	2024-11-04
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2024:14455-1	python311	2024-11-04

View the full security alert database.