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:

July 10, 2025	Anubis sends AI scraperbots to a well-deserved fate
June 25, 2025	Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy
May 28, 2025	Glibc project revisits infrastructure security
May 28, 2025	System-wide encrypted DNS
April 30, 2025	The mystery of the Mailman 2 CVEs
February 14, 2025	Fighting the AI scraperbot scourge
January 21, 2025	A look at the recent rsync vulnerability
November 19, 2024	Book review: Run Your Own Mail Server
November 12, 2024	Progress on toolchain security features
November 11, 2024	The top open-source security events in 2024
October 21, 2024	Python PGP proposal poses packaging puzzles
August 27, 2024	NIST finalizes post-quantum encryption standards
June 13, 2024	Improving control-flow integrity for Linux on RISC-V
June 12, 2024	Memory sealing for the GNU C Library
May 8, 2024	Securing Git repositories with gittuf
April 30, 2024	Security patterns and anti-patterns in embedded development
April 23, 2024	A change in direction for security-module stacking?
April 10, 2024	Continued attacks on HTTP/2
April 2, 2024	How the XZ backdoor works
March 12, 2024	Insecurity and Python pickles

Recent security alerts

Distribution	ID	Package	Date
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:02464-2	libgcrypt	2025-08-01
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:02586-1	rav1e	2025-08-01
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:02587-1	sccache	2025-08-01
Fedora	FEDORA-2025-10d6b88be2	chromium	2025-08-01
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2025:0277-1	chromium	2025-08-01
Ubuntu	USN-7682-4	linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8	2025-08-01
Debian	DLA-4262-1	libcommons-lang-java	2025-08-01
Red Hat	RHSA-2025:12447-01	libxml2	2025-07-31
Red Hat	RHSA-2025:12278-01	firefox	2025-07-31
Ubuntu	USN-7683-2	linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips	2025-07-31
Ubuntu	USN-7683-3	linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-realtime	2025-07-31
Ubuntu	USN-7682-3	linux-realtime	2025-07-31
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:02564-1	rmt-server	2025-07-31
Ubuntu	USN-7683-1	linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-xilinx-zynqmp	2025-07-31
Ubuntu	USN-7684-2	linux-fips	2025-07-31
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:02563-1	java-11-openjdk	2025-07-31
Fedora	FEDORA-2025-7d08872494	libtiff	2025-07-31
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:02579-1	redis	2025-07-31
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2025:02566-1	libarchive	2025-07-31
Ubuntu	USN-7681-2	linux-oracle	2025-07-31

View the full security alert database.