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Cisco published four critical NX-OS vulnerabilities together in October 2026. All four carry a CVSSv3 score of 9.8, all four allow code execution with root privileges, and none requires authentication. Identical severity scores are no help when deciding what to do on Monday…
In March a new depot opened and its PCs could not install our dispatch client. Our setup script... Tagged with sergeyshinder, releaseengineering, windows, security. In March a new depot opened and its PCs could not install our dispatch client. Our…
Originally published on Code Beneath. A Unix domain socket (UDS) is a bidirectional communication channel between processes on the same host. It is a file-like object, not a network socket. The kernel passes data through shared memory and queues, not…
Technical analysis of CVE-2026-87799, a CWE-59 link-following flaw in Canonical LXD rated 9.9 (CVSSv3). Tagged with security, vulnerability, lxd, cve202687799. #cve202687799-versus-cve202685185-symlink-replay-and-unvalidated-subvolume-paths-compared CVE-2026-87799 Versus CVE-2026-85185: Symlink Replay and Unvalidated Subvolume Paths Compared #two-ways-to-escape-the-same-volume Two ways to escape the same volume CVE-2026-87799 and CVE…
The product meeting had a chart. Operating systems of our customers. Windows 10 was the biggest slice by far. Windows 11 did not appear at all. Somebody suggested we could stop testing on it. The chart was built from the user agent…
Last edited on 2026-08-22 • Tagged under #netbsd #bsd #encrypt The first time I installed NetBSD I used sysinst(8), a menu-based program launched at boot that runs in the console. It has a clear and concise layout and I was quickly up-and-running…
What if a regular, normal NetBSD installation is too plebeian for you? This is a quick overview which attempts to synthesize DW Armstrong’s tutorial on NetBSD encryption with the cgdroot page from the NetBSD wiki in a single MBR partition,…
In what is quite a major achievement, Wine has been ported and made to work on OpenBSD. We have since tested several dozens of 64-bit Windows software, mostly successfully. See screenshots, livestream recordings for example. Even the Remaster of The…
Running Node.js applications inside Docker or Kubernetes introduces an important operational challenge: understanding memory pressure before a container runs out of memory. A Node.js application can appear healthy while its container is approaching its configured memory limit. And…
Significant changes in this release include some significant binfmt_misc extensions, some group-scheduling work aimed at improving performance on large systems, the new failfs filesystem that fails all operations, the fchroot() system call, global per-CPU data for BPF programs, the completion of…