Friday security updates across Linux distributions

According to the summary dated 16 October 2026, Linux distributions issued security updates for several packages, explicitly naming Chromium, cifs-utils, kernel, OpenSSH and QEMU. The text is an automatic translation of content from the LWN (Linux Weekly News) feed and lists the affected packages per distribution. AlmaLinux updated ghostscript, grafana, hplip, libsoup3, lrzsz, rpcbind and wireshark. Debian updated chromium, cifs-utils, expat, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, jpeg-xl, mutt and spip. Mageia updated gpsd, libx11 and roundcubemail. Oracle listed 389-ds-base, compat-libtiff3, environment-modules, ghostscript, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, hplip, idm:DL1, kernel, kernel-uek, libsoup, libsoup3, lrzsz, rpcbind and wireshark. Red Hat updated gd. SUSE listed dozens of packages, including alloy, bind, busybox, kernel, openssh, php8, qemu, swtpm, wpa_supplicant and the Java stack. Ubuntu updated golang-1.23, linux-azure and rabbitmq-server. The summary does not describe the fixed flaws or their severity. To verify, consult each distribution's official advisory and the original LWN article cited in the source.