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:

November 20, 2019	LSM stacking and the future
October 4, 2019	What to do about CVE numbers
October 1, 2019	PostgreSQL considers seccomp() filters
September 17, 2019	The properties of secure IoT devices
September 12, 2019	Comparing GCC and Clang security features
September 4, 2019	Kernel runtime security instrumentation
August 21, 2019	Making containers safer
July 24, 2019	Protecting update systems from nation-state attackers
July 2, 2019	OpenPGP certificate flooding
June 25, 2019	CVE-less vulnerabilities
June 19, 2019	The TCP SACK panic
April 10, 2019	A backdoor in a popular Ruby gem
April 3, 2019	How to (not) fix a security flaw
March 13, 2019	Turris: secure open-source routers
March 6, 2019	The Thunderclap vulnerabilities
March 6, 2019	A container-confinement breakout
February 27, 2019	GMP and assert()
February 8, 2019	Blacklisting insecure filesystems in openSUSE
January 30, 2019	Design for security
December 19, 2018	Handling the Kubernetes symbolic link vulnerability

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:4115-01	java-1.8.0-ibm	2019-12-09
Debian	DLA-2026-1	htmldoc	2019-12-09
Ubuntu	USN-4215-1	nss	2019-12-09
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:4114-01	nss	2019-12-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-160303ebeb	libidn2	2019-12-09
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:4113-01	java-1.8.0-ibm	2019-12-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-73197ff9a0	oniguruma	2019-12-08
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0375	lz4	2019-12-08
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0374	nss	2019-12-08
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0373	openexr	2019-12-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-65a983b8b6	proftpd	2019-12-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-bfacf1e958	proftpd	2019-12-08
Debian	DLA-2025-1	openslp-dfsg	2019-12-08
Debian	DLA-2024-1	phpmyadmin	2019-12-08
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0376	firefox	2019-12-08
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0377	thunderbird	2019-12-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-40ed49f449	community-mysql	2019-12-07
Debian	DLA-2023-1	openjdk-7	2019-12-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-08c700185f	community-mysql	2019-12-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-74d2feb5be	rabbitmq-server	2019-12-07

View the full security alert database.