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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 11 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Made public today was CVE-2023-43785 as an out-of-bounds memory access within the libX11 code that has been around since 1996. A second libX11 flaw is stack exhaustion from infinite recursion within the PutSubImage() function of libX11... This vulnerability has been around since X11R2 in February of 1988.

Due to these issues coming to light, libX11 1.8.7 and libXpm 3.5.17 were released today with the necessary security fixes. More details on these latest X.Org security vulnerabilities via today's X.Org security advisory.

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[–] eksb@programming.dev 104 points 11 months ago (16 children)

--my-next-video-card-wont-be-nvidia

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Even if you have an nvidia card, it's... fine now? With a 1080Ti, and Plasma, I haven't really had any issues on the Wayland session, that aren't straight up KDE bugs

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Still no VRR support which is likely a dealbreaker for many.

[–] supremeloser@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can't you use VRR on KDE?

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

With AMD you can. GSync isn't supported on Wayland.

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