Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes
While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distribution.
Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 is the first stable update to the v2.0 series in the past month and is primarily about shipping dozens of different security fixes for CVEs affecting many different packages.
There are security fixes to cURL, CMake, Krb5, Moby. Ruby, Python, xorg-x11-server, Vim, OpenSSL, and the Linux kernel itself, among many other CVE fixes elsewhere. Azure Linux 2.0 continues to make use of the Linux 5.15 LTS series.
Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 also adds an Azure Marketplace ARM64 FIPS image definition, Azure proxy agent is added to cloud-init, enabling the USB_TMC kernel module, and back-porting trace-cmd from Azure Linux 3.0 to Azure Linux 2.0.
Those interested in Azure Linux 2.0 can find the new update issued on Saturday via GitHub.
Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 is the first stable update to the v2.0 series in the past month and is primarily about shipping dozens of different security fixes for CVEs affecting many different packages.
There are security fixes to cURL, CMake, Krb5, Moby. Ruby, Python, xorg-x11-server, Vim, OpenSSL, and the Linux kernel itself, among many other CVE fixes elsewhere. Azure Linux 2.0 continues to make use of the Linux 5.15 LTS series.
Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 also adds an Azure Marketplace ARM64 FIPS image definition, Azure proxy agent is added to cloud-init, enabling the USB_TMC kernel module, and back-porting trace-cmd from Azure Linux 3.0 to Azure Linux 2.0.
Those interested in Azure Linux 2.0 can find the new update issued on Saturday via GitHub.
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