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5 November 2026
Security Advisory – 05 Nov 2026

Daily security advisory summary for 05 Nov 2026

4 November 2026
Linux kernel net/sched UAF constraints on CentOS 9 desktop

Linux kernel net/sched use-after-free looks messy on paper, and on CentOS 9 Desktop it is worse, because the obvious paths are blocked and the useful...

4 November 2026
AI-assisted pull requests raise review cost

AI-assisted pull requests look cheap until you try to review them properly. I’ve seen tidy code hide a lot of work, and the cost only goes up when a...

4 November 2026
Security Advisory – 04 Nov 2026

Daily security advisory summary for 04 Nov 2026

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8 June 2026
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7 June 2026
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7 June 2026
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6 June 2026
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6 June 2026
Patching OpenVPN 2.6.x and 2.8_git

OpenVPN vulnerabilities are tedious until they are not; this one lives in the handshake path, so a crafted packet can knock the process over before you have even noticed the client has connected. I...

5 June 2026
GitHub file access through compromised development tools

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5 June 2026
Kernel ring-buffer drops in Inspektor Gadget

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