Sunspear

https://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor/

Given that there’s an acknowledgement of the tool in a 1996 article, the software may even be older than sex itself

Also what a time capsule this page is lol, nothing wrong with it really… just a relic of a different era

• 2026-05-07: Submitted detailed information about the vulnerability and the exploit to the linux-distros mailing list. The embargo was set to 5 days, with an agreement that if a third party publishes the exploit on the internet during the embargo period, the Dirty Frag exploit would be published publicly.
• 2026-05-07: Detailed information and the exploit for this vulnerability were published publicly by an unrelated third party, breaking the embargo.

Well, that’s reassuring - hopefully, since the patch for it is also described in the repo, distro maintainers can patch it quickly

Another one? :/

I’m using Fedora KDE, and for the first time in my life, an upgrade (42 to 43) completely borked the system, in a way that I couldn’t boot to anything else other than a kernel panic.

I had to boot up a live USB, mount and chroot into the old system, and manually fix each duplicated / corrupted package. And it still caused every now and then some weird issue with dnf, so in the end I just reinstalled the entire OS.

I feel like updates “offered” via a nice and convenient gui shouldn’t really do this out of nowhere - and I wasn’t the only one to report this in the past half year.