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:

February 14, 2025	Fighting the AI scraperbot scourge
January 21, 2025	A look at the recent rsync vulnerability
November 19, 2024	Book review: Run Your Own Mail Server
November 12, 2024	Progress on toolchain security features
November 11, 2024	The top open-source security events in 2024
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

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
Fedora	FEDORA-2025-cc269f80fa	rust-zincati	2025-04-02
Fedora	FEDORA-2025-43bcbb0795	rust-zincati	2025-04-02
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:1102-1	docker, docker-stable	2025-04-02
Ubuntu	USN-7261-2	vim	2025-04-02
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:1099-1	govulncheck-vulndb	2025-04-02
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:1094-1	warewulf4	2025-04-02
Debian	DLA-4108-1	tomcat9	2025-04-02
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:1101-1	apparmor	2025-04-02
Ubuntu	USN-7405-1	inspircd	2025-04-02
Ubuntu	USN-7404-1	phpseclib	2025-04-02
Debian	DLA-4109-1	firefox-esr	2025-04-02
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:1103-1	firefox	2025-04-02
Red Hat	RHSA-2025:2426-01	pki-core	2025-04-02
Red Hat	RHSA-2025:3510-01	kernel	2025-04-02
Debian	DLA-4106-1	jetty9	2025-04-02
Debian	DLA-4107-1	openjpeg2	2025-04-02
Fedora	FEDORA-2025-96c31e2086	firefox	2025-04-02
Debian	DLA-4104-1	freetype	2025-04-01
Oracle	ELSA-2025-3082	postgresql:12	2025-04-01
Fedora	FEDORA-2025-ccb6313749	qgis	2025-04-01

View the full security alert database.