{
  "id": 5564449,
  "title": "Security updates for Friday",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/security-updates-for-friday",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-04T13:18:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1092659/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Several Linux distributions have released security updates on Friday, addressing vulnerabilities in various software packages. Debian updated chromium, firefox-esr, and pcre2, while Fedora patched cockpit, expat, freeipa, kbd, kernel, mrtg, python-pip, and valkyrie. Mageia released updates for libopenmpt and python-gitpython, and Oracle fixed issues in dbus-broker, freerdp, gegl, gimp:2.8, go-fdo-client, go-fdo-server, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, gzip, image-builder, iperf3, kernel, libssh, libxml2, microcode_ctl, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, openssl-fips-provider, pam, php:7.4, php:8.2, tar, and wget. SUSE addressed vulnerabilities in apache2-mod_auth_openidc, apptainer, busybox, cpio, cups-filters, curl, dracut, ffmpeg, file-roller, glibc, grafana, kubevirt, virt-pr-helper-container, lcms2, libtree-sitter0_26, libvirt, postgresql14, postgresql15, postgresql16, postgresql18, suseconnect-ng, terraform-provider-susepubliccloud, and yast2-users. Ubuntu also issued updates for FFmpeg, gnupg2, librabbitmq, libssh2, openssh, and spice-vdagent.",
  "key_points": [],
  "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."
}