As a Linux user, you've likely encountered RPM (Red Hat Package Manager), a powerful package management system used by various Linux distributions including Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and more ...

Dmitry Antipov, a Linux developer at CloudLinux, AlmaLinux OS's parent company, first spotted the problem in March 2021. Antipov found that RPM would work with unauthorized RPM packages. This meant ...

IBM uses RPM for package management in the AIX/VIOS operating systems. There is a critical security gap in this. Admins must update. IBM warns of a critical security vulnerability in the AIX and VIOS ...

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A Linux developer has submitted a patch to fix a long-standing issue in the open source RPM package management system that can reportedly be exploited to install malicious software. In March 2021, ...