Vue normale
[$] Toward better handling of major page faults
Security updates for Friday
Vulnerabilities in various GTK-based PDF readers
They contain a script for building malicious polyglot PDFs that are simultaneously both valid PDF files and also valid ELF binaries. When the user opens the PDF in the PDF viewer and clicks on a malicious link embedded in the PDF, the PDF abuses the command injection vulnerability to load itself as a GTK module using the `--gtk-module` command line flag. It can then execute arbitrary code via its library constructor. That flag was removed in GTK 4, which is why the vulnerability is much less serious for Papers than it is for Evince, Atril, and Xreader.
[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC's BPF support in the past year. This kind of session has become something of a tradition. There were similar updates in 2025 and 2024. This time around, GCC seems to be closing in on feature parity with the LLVM toolchain — as the slides detail.
OpenBSD 7.9 released
[$] Support for private memory nodes
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 21, 2026
- Front: OpenSUSE site age restrictions; Lots of LSFMM+BPF coverage; The tenth OpenPGP email summit.
- Briefs: Firefox 151.0; pgBackRest funding; RIP Peter G. Neumann; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
[$] What is to be done about MGLRU?
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] The tenth OpenPGP email summit
The OpenPGP Email Summit is an annual meeting for those who work on encrypted email and related topics. The tenth installment of this meeting took place in March 2026 and the minutes have now been published. As usual, a wide range of topics were discussed. Highlights included support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with multiple actors planning rollouts within this year, a promising new approach for making email signatures ubiquitous with the plan of making OpenPGP signed email a default, a new draft that brings reliable deletion (or "forward secrecy") features to OpenPGP, as well as a plan for transferring ownership of the OpenPGP.org domain.
Firefox 151.0 released
[$] openSUSE "terms of site" raise complaints about age restrictions
Many people in the Linux community began using the operating system—and
contributing to open source—at a tender age, often well before
their 16th birthday. Thus, a recent change in openSUSE's terms of site (ToS)
that required users of the project's web site to be "at least 16
years of age or the age of majority
" in their jurisdiction has
raised objections. The terms have since been modified, though users
must still have parental approval to create accounts if they are
younger than 16.