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:

April 14, 2023	TOTP authentication with free software
February 21, 2023	Passwordless authentication with FIDO2—beyond just the web
February 13, 2023	A proposed threat model for confidential computing
January 25, 2023	X clients and byte swapping
January 11, 2023	PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain
December 9, 2022	mimmutable() for OpenBSD
November 8, 2022	Using certificates for SSH authentication
October 6, 2022	Fingerprinting systems with TCP source-port selection
September 22, 2022	Safer flexible arrays for the kernel
September 14, 2022	A Python security fix breaks (some) bignums
August 17, 2022	Tornado Cash and collateral damage
August 12, 2022	A fuzzy issue of responsible disclosure
August 9, 2022	Adding auditing to pip
June 10, 2022	Vetting the cargo
April 27, 2022	The risks of embedded bare repositories in Git
March 8, 2022	Belenios: a system for secret voting
February 10, 2022	The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316
February 2, 2022	Fedora and pkexec
January 26, 2022	Goodbye FLoC, hello Topics
January 5, 2022	Restricting SSH agent keys

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-003e7d2867	git	2023-05-12
Debian	DLA-3419-1	webkit2gtk	2023-05-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-49eb814ccc	moodle	2023-05-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-0d20d09f2d	python-django3	2023-05-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2023:2173-1	firefox	2023-05-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-2a2edeb67e	java-11-openjdk	2023-05-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-60a90b6e6a	moodle	2023-05-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-2cf9dd7d52	vtk	2023-05-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2023:2174-1	container-suseconnect	2023-05-11
Debian	DLA-3418-1	nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx	2023-05-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2023:2175-1	firefox	2023-05-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-2a5256e2a3	firefox	2023-05-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-812132bc09	java-11-openjdk	2023-05-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-fb8f800cb7	LibRaw	2023-05-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-0ab503de3d	moodle	2023-05-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2023:2176-1	firefox	2023-05-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2023:2171-1	ntp	2023-05-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2023:2178-1	buildah	2023-05-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2023:2177-1	buildah	2023-05-11
Debian	DLA-3417-1	firefox-esr	2023-05-11

View the full security alert database.