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LWN.net weekly edition of October 22, 2026: kernel, Rust, NFS and security
Cyber radar: the LWN.net weekly edition of October 22, 2026 covers Android, kernel integrity, Rust, NFS and brief notes on vulnerabilities, including the eMudhra CA compromise and PHP RCEs.
The source is the weekly LWN.net edition dated October 22, 2026, according to the date in the record. The cover story covers Android vendor hooks, reproducible builds and kernel integrity, Rust data structures, changes to the NFS server, no_new_privs configuration for PID 1, Rust XArray, cross-crate declarations in Rust, version 7.3 statistics and Nix flakes. The brief notes mention the compromise of the eMudhra certificate authority, RCEs in PHP, vulnerabilities in Node.js and musl, along with GNOME OS, OpenBSD 8.0, Ubuntu 26.10, TAB results and quotations. The announcements section mentions newsletters, conferences and security updates. The source text is an automatic translation of the LWN feed, so technical names and versions should be checked against the original published by LWN before any decision. For security teams, the value lies in quickly identifying which notes concern components in use, such as PHP, Node.js, musl and the certificate chain, and then consulting the full advisories and vendor patches.
Original source: Edição semanal do LWN.net de 22 de outubro de 2026