Software in the Public Interest has
released
its annual report for 2024. It includes reports from the long list of
projects housed under the SPI umbrella, but the financial statements are
not included at this time.
Loadable kernel modules require access to kernel data structures and
functions to get their job done; the kernel provides this access by way of
exported symbols. Almost since this mechanism was created, there have been
debates over which symbols should be exported, and how. The 6.16 kernel
gained a new export mechanism that limits access to symbols to specific
kernel modules. That code is likely to change soon, but the addition
of an enforcement mechanism has since been backed out.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (gnutls, linux-firmware, mingw-djvulibre, mingw-python-requests, and salt), Mageia (qtimageformats6), Oracle (gnome-remote-desktop, golang, kernel, libxml2, and perl-File-Find-Rule), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good, kernel, and protobuf), and Ubuntu (apport, glibc, gnutls28, and roundcube).
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