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Security updates for Monday

Summary

This article provides a compilation of recent security updates across AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, and SUSE distributions. It lists specific packages like Firefox, Kernel, Chromium, and PostgreSQL that received patches between September 25-28, 2026.

Multiple Linux distributions (AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, SUSE) issued security updates.
Key packages like Firefox, Chromium, Kernel, and libxml2 received patches.
Updates were released for various versions and releases of each distribution.
The advisories cover updates published from September 25 to September 28, 2026.

System administrators and users of the listed Linux distributions should review these advisories to ensure their systems are patched against recent vulnerabilities.

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