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Jay Neiva and Mauro Carrillo discovered that Authlib did not properlyvalidate cryptographic keys embedded in JWT headers. An attacker couldpossibly use this issue to forge trusted tokens, resulting inauthentication and authorization bypass. (CVE-2026-27962) Jay Neiva and Mauro Carrillo discovered that Authlib incorrectly handledRSA1_5 encrypted tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue torecover sensitive encrypted…
DistroWatch.com: ShredOS Last Update: 2026-05-22 13:42 UTC ShredOS is a small live Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely erase the contents of disks. It can boot from a USB device, CD or DVD and it supports both BIOS and UEFI booting. The system boots directly into nwipe, a program that securely erases the…
An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release, bringing about a mix of refinements that touch keyboard shortcuts, remote transcription, and Wayland reliability. We kick things off with the most important usability addition. Earlier, users were stuck with the default toggle or push-to-talk bindings for recording audio…
Minecraft is set for another big update with a fresh Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 4 ready for testing, and overall it’s quite a big technical upgrade. They have finally moved on from the ancient GLFW which hasn’t seen a release since early 2024, up to the modern cross-platform SDL3 library to power window management, input and…
It was discovered that the Net::IMAP client in Ruby did not properlysanitize Symbol arguments passed to IMAP commands. A remote attackercontrolling a malicious IMAP server, or able to influence commandarguments, could use this to inject arbitrary IMAP commands via CRLFsequences. (CVE-2026-42258) It was discovered that the Zlib::GzipReader in Ruby did not correctlyensure sufficient buffer capacity…
The idea that Wayland has worse input lag than X11 has been floating around Linux gaming circles for years. Some numbers backing the claim did come up back in 2025, when a developer measured GNOME’s Wayland session against X11 and reported some considerable extra latency. More recently, Marco Nett decided to test the same question…
Valve launched the latest update to Proton Experimental to bring more fixes for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux including Steam Deck and Steam Machine. In case you missed it – Valve also recently launched the latest stable version with Proton 11. Proton Experimental is like their testing ground for future stable numbered version…
Artur Stetsko discovered that the .NET did not properly validateauthentication data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to elevateprivileges. (CVE-2026-47300) Levi Broderick discovered that .NET did not properly handle XML encryptionduring parsing. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consumeexcessive resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-47302) Pham Quang Minh discovered that…
In reply to a developer on one of the Linux kernel mailing lists, Linux creator Linus Torvalds firmly put a foot down to push back against anti-AI comments. There’s a lot of negativity surrounding generative AI including its use for making images, videos, code and now quite often for video games too. I don’t think…
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled authorization whenmultiple method constraints defined the same HTTP method. A remoteattacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authorizationrestrictions. (CVE-2026-43515) It was discovered that the Tomcat number guess example application didnot properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker could possiblyuse this issue to inject malicious scripts, resulting in cross-sitescripting….
