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Security updates for Wednesday

This Wednesday's security updates cover a wide range of software packages across various Linux distributions. AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, Slackware, SUSE, and Ubuntu have all released updates for their respective systems. The updates include critical packages such as bind, dovecot, freerdp, kernel, mariadb-connector-c, mod_auth_openidc, nodejs22, nodejs:22, sudo, and vim for AlmaLinux.

Debian's updates include node-shell-quote, puma, rails, ruby-jwt, and suricata-update. Fedora has released updates for chromium, cockpit, flocq, freerdp, gappalib-coq, golang-x-mod, httpd, janus, libical, musescore, python3-docs, python3.14, python3.15, rocq, rocq-stdlib, tesseract, why3, and zenon. Mageia has updated srt and tor, while Oracle has addressed issues with freerdp, kernel, libpcap, mariadb-connector-c, nodejs22, sudo, and vim.

Red Hat has updated expat and grafana, Slackware has updated openssh, SUSE has updated chromium, docker-stable, firefox, jupyter-jupyterlab, libtcnative-1-0, tomcat, tomcat10, libtcnative-1-0, tomcat11, openexr, python310, python313-azure-storage-queue, python313-langchain-anthropic, python313-sglang, python313-Werkzeug, and valkey, and Ubuntu has updated fluidsynth, freerdp3, freetype, golang-1.18, golang-1.21, golang-1.24, gst-plugins-good1.0, libsoup2.4, libsoup3, libwebsockets, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-ibm, linux-oracle, linux-realtime, linux-azure, linux-azure-fde, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-oem-7.0, redis, sg3-utils, tesseract, and u-boot.

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