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 5, 2020	Deprecating scp
October 14, 2020	Further analysis of PyPI typosquatting
September 23, 2020	OpenPGP in Thunderbird
August 13, 2020	Theoretical vs. practical cryptography in the kernel
July 22, 2020	The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track
June 24, 2020	Open-source contact tracing, part 1
June 3, 2020	Free user space for non-graphics drivers
March 18, 2020	Bringing encryption restrictions in through the back door
March 10, 2020	The Let's Encrypt certificate revocation scare
February 26, 2020	Impedance matching for BPF and LSM
February 5, 2020	Browsers, web sites, and user tracking
December 11, 2019	OpenBSD system-call-origin verification
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

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:1841-1	tigervnc	2020-11-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:1834-1	tmux	2020-11-06
Debian	DSA-4784-1	wordpress	2020-11-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:1840-1	tiff	2020-11-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:1843-1	transfig	2020-11-06
Ubuntu	USN-4620-1	phpldapadmin	2020-11-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-d67cc48dce	pngcheck	2020-11-06
Debian	DLA-2436-1	sddm	2020-11-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-7c22b25a07	blueman	2020-11-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-ebabb6bf76	blueman	2020-11-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:1834-1	tmux	2020-11-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:1842-1	tomcat	2020-11-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:1844-1	xen	2020-11-06
Ubuntu	USN-4621-1	netqmail	2020-11-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-127d40f1ab	chromium	2020-11-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-337dd39e3e	pngcheck	2020-11-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-5f08623da1	salt	2020-11-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-f9fa7892f2	salt	2020-11-06
Debian	DLA-2433-1	bouncycastle	2020-11-05
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:3162-1	ImageMagick	2020-11-05

View the full security alert database.