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SUSE Security Team Blog
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SUSE Security Team Blog is the company blog at security.opensuse.org, writing about security and systems. Since 2024, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Multiple Security Issues in Screen”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the OpenSUSE security team blog for write-ups of vulnerabilities in Linux software, such as the GNU Screen security issues and KDE 6 D-Bus/polkit problems, and for how distros differ in exposure.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Open Source vulnerability reports and code review results.
Most-linked posts?
- Multiple Security Issues in Screen5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-05-12
- KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-04-03
- Removal of Deepin Desktop from OpenSUSE Due to Packaging Policy Violation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-07
What Hacker News says?
The original writeup by the OpenSUSE security team laid this out better: https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/12/screen-security-iss... Different distros built it in different ways, affecting level of vulnerability to the different issues.
Comment linking /2025/05/12/screen-security-issues.html
on “Multiple security issues in GNU Screen”Submitted KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore as a story · 180 points
HN discussionHere's the rendered blog post: https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/12/screen-security-iss...
Comment linking /2025/05/12/screen-security-issues.html
on “Multiple security issues in GNU Screen”Submitted Removal of Deepin Desktop from OpenSUSE Due to Packaging Policy Violation as a story · 44 points
HN discussionRendered version: https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/12/screen-security-iss...
Comment linking /2025/05/12/screen-security-issues.html
on “Multiple security issues in GNU Screen”Submitted Kea DHCP: Local Vulnerabilities in Many Linux and BSD Distributions as a story · 25 points
HN discussionFlathub is not unvetted. Every submission goes through human review. If a piece of software requires an unnecessary permission (i.e. if someone submits an alarm clock program that requires home folder access and internet access), it will get rejected. If a developer updates their software and changes the required permissions, the update won't get pushed to users until it goes through human review. Besides this, for…
Comment linking /2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html
on “The Future of Flatpak”Submitted Multiple Security Issues in Screen as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMost good stuffed Distros do this. For example SUSE recently banned a package because of "calling home" e.g. did side-leading. https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-remo... Debian indeed does this. In release FF has disabled telemetry: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox
Comment linking /2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html
on “Why does Debian change software?”Submitted KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDoing pretty good on Sway but it's obviously not for everyone. I keep thinking of trying to get into a more conventional desktop to have the experience & KDE has been very high on the list; seemed sensible straight, straightforward, and customizable, groovy. There's a bunch of security issues that got raised in https://security.opensuse.org/2024/04/02/kde6-dbus-polkit.ht... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39968…
Comment linking /2024/04/02/kde6-dbus-polkit.html
on “Fedora Linux 40”Submitted Multiple Security Issues in GNU Screen as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRelated to https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/12/screen-security-iss...
Comment linking /2025/05/12/screen-security-issues.html
on “GNU Screen v5.0.1 is released”Submitted Linux: World Writable Directory in /var/log/ allows Privilege Escalation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit G(al)ore as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore as a story · 3 points
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