{
  "id": 3739104,
  "title": "Security updates for Thursday",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/security-updates-for-thursday",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-27T13:00:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1090938/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Thursday, numerous security updates were released by several Linux distributions including AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Oracle, SUSE, and Ubuntu. These updates address vulnerabilities in a wide range of software packages.\n\nAlmaLinux updated packages such as assertj-core, attr, firefox, and kernel. Debian patched bubblewrap, cockpit, and openjdk-17. Fedora released updates for bluez, curl, and golang. Gentoo updated Chromium, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge.\n\nOracle's updates included abrt, gstreamer1-plugins-base, httpd, nginx:1.24, and polkit. SUSE updated apache2-mod_auth_openidc, curl, and docker. Ubuntu addressed vulnerabilities in bind9, libheif, and openssl.",
  "summary": "Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (assertj-core, attr, firefox, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-good, httpd, kernel, mingw-openssl, mod_http2, nginx, nginx:1.24, pam, polkit, and sqlite), Debian (bubblewrap, cockpit, emacs, gimp, libdbi-perl, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, wireshark, and xrdp), Fedora (bluez, curl, emacs, golang, knot, libopenmpt, libsoup3, openbao,…",
  "key_points": [
    "AlmaLinux patched assertj-core, attr, firefox, kernel",
    "Debian updated bubblewrap, cockpit, openjdk-17",
    "Fedora released bluez, curl, golang updates"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}