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Published at LXer: Red Hat has issued an urgent security alert today for Fedora Linux 40, Fedora Linux 41, and Fedora Rawhide users about a security flaw (CVE-2024-3094) in the XZ Utils 5.6.0 and...

First it was Obama who stole God's rainbow and gave it to the satan. Now its Biden who gives the most important Christian holiday to Satan....

Published at LXer: A critical vulnerability in Linux XZ Utils (CVE-2024-3094) enables remote system breaches via SSH. Immediate action is required. Read More......

Title says it all, sounds dead easy, but I have problems doing this I want to use the commandline and here is what happens. Plug in USB stick df -h shows this: Code: ---------

Hello all, just today I've upgraded to latest -current after a while I've not done and, a part for some minor glitch mostly due to my personal installation everything seems to be fine, except for...

Published at LXer: A critical vulnerability has been found in the wall command of the util-linux package that poses a severe security threat to Linux systems. This vulnerability, known as...

I am using ex-vi on Slackware (not vim). I wrote a macro in ~/.exrc to do multiple search & replace commands. Each command is followed by the ^M character (AKA CR). The macro works great if the...

I have an old laptop, an Acer Aspire 5050 64-bit with 4GB memory (the most it can take). It ran WinXP when new. Currently it has Linux Mint Xfce 64-bit installed, but it often freezes and has to...

Hi Everyone, So I have been catching up upgrading packages from http://ftp.arm.slackware.com/slackwarearm/slackwareaarch64-current/ But now I am unable to see permissions, nor date stamps of...

I know this can be done in two parts, but I'm looking for a "both-in-one". How do I get the Wi-Fi on the SBC to connect to two different networks? Do I need two Wi-Fi cards on the SBC? (and if "yes"...

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/syndicated-linux-news-67/lxer-malicious-backdoor-sneaks-into-xz-linux-world%27s-data-compression-library-and-tool-4175735491/ The Fedora guys are jumping up...

Published at LXer: Red Hat in all caps says STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES. Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression library called...

Hello, I have connected to a server with SSH and executed a command. Now I open another terminal and connect to the same server with the same username with SSH. How can I see in this new session what...

Published at LXer: CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins. A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed...

Hello Team, I hope this message finds you well. I recently migrated my website's ad network from Google AdSense to Ezoic. My website includes a subdomain where I write and publish blogs. After...

My internal Realtek RTL8188EE wireless card is hard blocked, regardless of the state of my "airplane mode" key. My laptop does not have a dedicated RF kill switch. Background: I made the switch to...

Published at LXer: Fedora 41's proposed DNF5 will replace dnf, offering enhanced performance, fewer dependencies, and a Python API wrapper. Approval pending. Read More......

I first started using Linux through Debian yesterday, and so far so good. However, something that's pretty essential to how I use my computer is the various shortcuts AutoHotKey provided in Windows. ...

Published at LXer: Andres Freund discovered that the upstream source tarballs for xz-utils, the XZ-format compression utilities, are compromised and inject malicious code, at build time, into the...

It happened, while I played with the particle-box on Paul Lutus' Web-Site: https://arachnoid.com/particle_box/index.html I rotated the box so that I looked from above, slightly from the right...

Published at LXer: Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux...

Hi, I've tried to compile libtorrent-rasterbar and noticed that it fails due to missing compatible libboost-python library. Checking the -current upgrade I noticed that libboost 1.84.0 includes only...

Published at LXer: Summary: The latest versions of the ixzi tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access. Specifically, this code is present...

Published at LXer: Monit is an open-source monitoring tool that can be used to monitor servers. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the Monit monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04. ...

My LetsEncrypt certificate expired (Slackware 15.0 / Apache). :( I suspect that the February 8 upgrade for Dehydrated (to 0.7.1) reset permissions on some files or folders. Here is what I see when...

Published at LXer: ElkArte is a free and open-source forum software written in PHP language. This tutorial will show you how to install ElkArte on Ubuntu 22.04 with Let's Encrypt SSL. Read...

Published at LXer: Caddy is a powerful, yet easy-to-use webserver for Linux. Learn how you can use it for hosting websites and proxies in Ubuntu today. Read More......

Published at LXer: Samba 4.20 Released with Improved Active Directory Compatibility and New Utilities. Read More... (https://debugpointnews.com/samba-4-20/)

... So, maybe Slackware 15.1 alpha is around the corner?

Published at LXer: Discover a way to run a Windows 11 machine on a Docker container in your Linux system, such as Ubuntu, Debain, RedHat, Fedora, etc. Read More......

Hello everyone! i have a thin client device with armbian cli OS, and I've created a script that would "using nmcli" list a numerated list of the names of the available networks and select one of...

I have a double system on my SSD, Windows and Linux. This also isn't the first time I try to install a LUKS LVM debian system, previously grub could at least create a boot menu entry for Windows...

Hi everyone. I'm joining this forum because i always get issues when trying to do something on linux, even if I follow a guide step-by-step lol. I also hope that I could lend an hand from time to...

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202403-1

Greetings folks, Maybe a dumb question but can you transfer a C program from an Intel based Mac to an IBM clone and expect it to work? I'm assuming there is communication to/from USB involved. ...

Published at LXer: Two talks in Switzerland, where GNU's 40th birthday was celebrated last autumn by a then-hairless GNU founder, who underwent cancer treatment Read More......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68677487 In the UK criminals almost always only serve half their sentence, as they get let out of prison early for good behaviour. So someone sentenced to 30...

Published at LXer: Discover a step-by-step guide to install different DEs, such as KDE, Xfce, LXQt, etc., on the Ubuntu system with practical examples. Read More......

There are reports that xz versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 contain a backdoor that was inserted upstream reported here (https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4). This allows a ssh exploit. ...

Published at LXer: Munin is a free, open-source system and powerful network monitoring tool for Linux. This tutorial will show you how to install the Munin monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04. Read...

Chromium-ungoogled-123.0612 is installed here on current. It won't remember logins or passwords, which is a pain. My current is a squeaky clean install, clean / & home. But I have put selected data...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.2.2 as the second point release to the latest LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series fixing more...

Published at LXer: Java is a powerful programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Over the years, it has become indispensable for developing everything...

Hello, Would it be possible to share an ext4 partition among different linux distros? For instance have a /dev/sdd4 and mount this to /mnt/data on each of the distros that is multi booted, and...

Published at LXer: This tutorial teaches you all you need to know about Nix, a powerful package manager for Linux and Unix. Read More......

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Published at LXer: PostgreSQL or Postgres is an open-source object-relational database management that implements the SQL querying language. pgAdmin is an open-source administration tool for...

Published at LXer: Master traffic redirection with our Caddy tutorial. Set up Caddy as a reverse proxy and quickly streamline access to your services. Read More......

Hello, I have two YAML files like below: Code: --------- version: '3.9' networks: PHP: driver: bridge services:

Published at LXer: Samba 4.20: Now with reduced dependencies, a new Windows Search Protocol client, crucial security updates, and more. Read More......