Security updates for Tuesday
Multiple security updates have been released across various Linux distributions. These updates address vulnerabilities in packages such as nginx, PostgreSQL, and the Linux kernel. Users are encouraged to apply these updates to enhance system security.
- ▪AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, SUSE, and Ubuntu have all issued security updates on May 18 and 19, 2026.
- ▪Notable packages receiving updates include libpng, nginx, and PostgreSQL.
- ▪The updates aim to fix vulnerabilities that could potentially compromise system security.
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| Original publisher | LWN.net (Linux Weekly News) |
| Canonical URL | https://lwn.net/Articles/1073542/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 13:24:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T13:29:57.664Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T13:29:57.664Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | XMNGr-3J32ul · 4 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:18028 9 libpng 2026-05-18 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:18029 9 nginx 2026-05-18 Debian DLA-4590-1 LTS erlang 2026-05-18 Debian DSA-6280-1 stable netatalk 2026-05-18 Debian DLA-4589-1 LTS nginx 2026-05-18 Fedora FEDORA-2026-8ac58f5cf3 F42 SDL2_image 2026-05-19 Fedora FEDORA-2026-f1f87b465a F43 SDL2_image 2026-05-19 Fedora FEDORA-2026-707b7050da F43 mod_md 2026-05-19 Fedora FEDORA-2026-c9b72de46a F44 mod_md 2026-05-19 Mageia MGASA-2026-0149 9 perl-WWW-Mechanize-Cached, perl-File-XDG, perl-Path-Tiny 2026-05-18 Mageia MGASA-2026-0148 9 perl-YAML-Syck 2026-05-18 Mageia MGASA-2026-0150 9 perl-libwww-perl, perl-HTTP-Message 2026-05-19 Mageia MGASA-2026-0151 9 postgresql15 2026-05-19 Mageia MGASA-2026-0147 9 rclone 2026-05-18 SUSE SUSE-SU-2026:1619-2 SLE15…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at LWN.net (Linux Weekly News).