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The Hacker News

Critical OpenWrt DHCPv6 Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root

OpenWrt has shipped version 24.10.8 to close a critical DHCPv6 stack overflow and a wider set of remotely triggerable flaws in network services enabled by default. The critical issue, tracked as CVE-2026-53921 and rated 9.8 on CVSS 3.1 in OpenWrt's GitHub advisory, lets an unauthenticated attacker able to reach the DHCPv6 server overwrite a stack buffer in odhcpd through a crafted DHCPv6

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ExternalBackend Development
FastAPI Releases

0.140.9

Fixes 🐛 Fix exclude_defaults not propagated to dict keys and values in jsonable_encoder. PR #16043 by @MBGrao. Internal ⬆ Bump gitpython from 3.1.50 to 3.1.54. PR #16047 by @dependabot[bot]. ⬆ Bump pymdown-extensions from 10.21.3 to 11.0. PR #16048 by @dependabot[bot]. ⬆ Bump pyasn1 from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4. PR #16045 by @dependabot[bot].

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ExternalSoftware Architecture
Martin Fowler

Why I’m Writing Rachel’s Ramblings

TL;DR I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking. And writing. Or more specifically, not writing. This really hit me earlier this year at the Future of Software conference. I was surrounded by people sharing their latest ideas and I had a slightly uncomfortable realization: I have my own. Not just opinions. Actual patterns. Hypotheses. Things I’m seeing across clie

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

More Tests, More Confidence? Test Suites Are Investment Portfolios

Every test suite starts as an asset. The first hundred tests are almost universally useful. They cover the system's core behaviors, and they catch regressions. They give the team justified confidence that the software is behaving as intended. The team is proud of them. The CI pipeline is fast. The signal-to-noise ratio is high. Then the suite grows. It grows because the system grows and the coverage targets demand it. It grows because new engineers arrive and write tests in new styles, because i

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GitHub Changelog

GitHub Actions holds potentially malicious workflows for approval

Recent supply chain attacks use compromised GitHub credentials to push malicious GitHub Actions workflows that steal CI/CD credentials and carry out additional attacks. To help protect public repositories from these… The post GitHub Actions holds potentially malicious workflows for approval appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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