279: CUPS Vulnerability, Tails OS + Tor, Ubuntu 24.10, COSMIC Alpha 2 & more Linux news

This Week in Linux

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This week in Linux, we have a lot of great news and a little bit of some unfortunate news regarding a vulnerability with the CUPS printing system. Now, it's not as bad as people are claiming, but we'll get to that in a bit. We also have the merger of the Tor project and the Tails OS project, which is really cool, and Ubuntu 24.10 beta is now available, as well as the Cosmic Desktop has reached an alpha 2 that is now available for download and testing. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the Linux and Open Source world. So let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:47 CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
06:06 Tor Project & Tails OS Join Forces
08:58 Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Available
12:09 COSMIC Desktop Alpha 2 Available
17:16 Valve Engineer Hopes to Accelerate Wayland Development
19:54 Valve to directly collaborate with Arch Linux
21:42 Support the show

Links:

• CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/
  • https://ubuntu.com//blog/cups-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-fix-available
  • https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-response-openprinting-cups-vulnerabilities
  • https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/critical-linux-cups-printing-system.html
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/ubuntu-secuity-fix-cups-vulnerability
• Tor Project & Tails OS Join Forces
  • https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/
  • https://tails.net/news/index.en.html
• Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Available
  • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2024-September/000306.html
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/ubuntu-24-10-beta-is-now-available-to-download
• COSMIC Desktop Alpha 2 Available
  • https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-2-press-release
  • https://system76.com/cosmic
• Valve Engineer Hopes to Accelerate Wayland Development
  • https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/339
  • https://www.supergoodcode.com/My-Wayland-Your-Wayland-Our-Wayland/
  • https://www.supergoodcode.com/unsticking-the-very-sticky/
  • https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blumenkrantz-Faster-Wayland
• Valve to directly collaborate with Arch Linux
  • https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/
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