The builders of Debian have been exhausting at work patching a number of safety vulnerabilities and fixing bugs for the most recent level launch of their venerable Linux distribution. This new launch fixes quite a few safety points surrounding Apache’s Log4j (resembling CVE-2021-4104 CVE-2022-23302 CVE-2022-23305 CVE-2022-23307) and consists of different safety patches for the likes of ClamAV, FLAC, GLibc, Golong, XTerm, atftp, eguardian, glewlwyd, gnupg2, and htmldoc.
Though this launch doesn’t carry to gentle any new options, it’s nonetheless an important launch and all Debian 11 customers shouldn’t hesitate to improve (particularly those that use Debian with the Apache webserver).
The 11.3 launch ships with kernel 5-10.0-13, which is patched in opposition to the Soiled Pipe vulnerability.
So far as user-facing software program, it’s necessary to keep in mind that Debian focuses totally on stability, so many apps may appear old-fashioned. As an illustration, the model of LibreOffice shipped is 7.0.4-2, which is an LTS launch. Though this model may be lacking a number of the new options of LibreOffice 7.3, it’s a really secure model, so it’s on-brand for Debian.
Get your copy of Debian 11.3 and ensure to take a look at the full launch notes for the distribution.
