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-c08f9dfc16	bzip3	2023-04-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-cfe20dbcab	mingw-glib2	2023-04-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-fe18ae3e85	xorg-x11-server	2023-04-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-3a821e6e73	bzip3	2023-04-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-9887f01975	libyang	2023-04-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-0e1ae0d5f6	thunderbird	2023-04-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-239bae4b57	xorg-x11-server-Xwayland	2023-04-14
Ubuntu	USN-6020-1	linux-bluefield	2023-04-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-f519fe8cda	mingw-glib2	2023-04-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-17aaa2187f	libyang	2023-04-14
Ubuntu	USN-6015-1	thunderbird	2023-04-13
Red Hat	RHSA-2023:1770-01	openvswitch3.1	2023-04-13
Oracle	ELSA-2023-1703	kernel	2023-04-13
Oracle	ELSA-2023-1743	nodejs:14	2023-04-13
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-0c1aaa76b6	pdns-recursor	2023-04-13
Fedora	FEDORA-2023-d365f19e05	thunderbird	2023-04-13
Ubuntu	USN-6019-1	python-flask-cors	2023-04-13
Debian	DSA-5388-1	haproxy	2023-04-13
Red Hat	RHSA-2023:1766-01	openvswitch3.1	2023-04-13
Ubuntu	USN-6012-1	smarty3	2023-04-13

View the full security alert database.