{
  "id": 8248116,
  "title": "Security updates for Friday",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/security-updates-for-friday",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-18T12:52:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1095219/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu have all issued security updates as of Friday. The updates span a variety of software packages, including .NET versions, coreutils, kernel, libevent, libsoup3, microcode_ctl, perl-Net-DNS, postgresql18, postgresql:16, postgresql:18, tomcat, and unbound for AlmaLinux and Debian. Fedora's updates include chromium, freeipmi, GitPython, gnatcoll, nodejs-undici, parted, python-django5, and sblim-cmpi-base. Mageia has updated imagemagick and python-starlette, while Oracle updated .NET versions, coreutils, corosync, firewalld, kernel, libevent, libsoup, microcode_ctl, nginx:1.24, perl, perl:5.32, postgresql:16, postgresql:18, redis, rsync, rsyslog, tesseract, and unbound. Red Hat issued a security update for vim, and SUSE updated alsa, chirp, chromium, cjose, cups, discount, firefox, gh, glibc, gvfs, jq, kernel, libcjose-devel, libmbedcrypto7, libpcap, mbedtls-2, netcdf, nodejs18, openai-codex, openvpn, pcre2, perl-net-dns, sngrep, tiff, and znc. Ubuntu updated bison, bubblewrap, and gst-plugins-good1.0.",
  "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."
}