Author Archives: Filip Komar

OpenSSH security flaw fixed   

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Filip Komar

OpenSSH is a set of free software tools enabling secure communications over a computer network using the SSH protocol. In particular, this tool enables remote server administration. Recently, researchers demonstrated that under very specific conditions, when establishing a connection using … Continue reading →

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Mageia 9 beta1 is already here

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Filip Komar

We are proud to announce the first beta of Mageia 9. A lot of fixes and new updates have followed since the first alpha back in November 2022. Congratulations to all the teams that make up Mageia for the great … Continue reading →

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Mageia 9 alpha is here already

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Filip Komar

We are happy to announce the release of the test images of Mageia 9. These are available to early testers to help with the development towards a stable final release of Mageia 9. There have been large scale updates of … Continue reading →

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PwnKit (polkit’s pkexec exploit) – CVE-2021-4034

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Filip Komar

The update fixing the issue for Mageia 8 was released Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC (05:31 EST). For anyone still running Mageia 7 (or older releases), the recommendation is … As root run “chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec”.That will mean pkexec … Continue reading →

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Mageia 7 beta 2 is out!

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Filip Komar

We are very proud to announce that Mageia 7 beta 2 is available for everyone to download! This new beta comes with lots of bugfixes and updates, and it is one of our best beta releases. Of course, there is … Continue reading →

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