# Linux Action News 163

URL: /show/linux-action-news/163/
> The Ubuntu bug you need to patch, PayPal's Bitcoin support goes live, and a breaking change inbound to systemd.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 163
- Date: 2020-11-15
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Duration: 00:26:45
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/23a46578-b4a7-4467-bd2d-42d5a42e9f34.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/4Nx8rXepx50





### Episode Links

  * [Ubuntu fixes bugs that standard users could use to become root](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/ubuntu-fixes-bugs-that-standard-users-could-use-to-become-root/ "Ubuntu fixes bugs that standard users could use to become root") — A handful of commands was all it took for untrusted users to become all-powerful.
  * [Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation](https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/11/ubuntu_desktop_vulnerability_allows_privilege/ "Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation")
  * [How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home](https://securitylab.github.com/research/Ubuntu-gdm3-accountsservice-LPE "How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home")
  * [Meet Proxmox Backup Server, a Debian-Based Open Source Enterprise Backup Solution](https://9to5linux.com/meet-proxmox-backup-server-a-debian-based-open-source-enterprise-backup-solution "Meet Proxmox Backup Server, a Debian-Based Open Source Enterprise Backup Solution") — Proxmox launched today Proxmox Backup Server as a new edition of its Debian-based Linux distribution engineered to act as an enterprise solution for backing up and restoring physical hosts, virtual machines and containers.
  * [Proxmox Roadmap](https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Roadmap "Proxmox Roadmap")
  * [Proxmox Backup Server](https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-backup-server "Proxmox Backup Server")
  * [Proxmox Backup Git Repo](https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=summary "Proxmox Backup Git Repo")
  * [PayPal's crypto trading goes live in the US](https://cointelegraph.com/news/paypal-s-crypto-goes-live-in-the-us "PayPal's crypto trading goes live in the US") — Customers will be able to trade up to $20,000 a week, rather than the originally announced $10,000.
  * [Systemd catches up with bind events](https://lwn.net/Articles/837033/ "Systemd catches up with bind events") — Perhaps the real lesson here is that the community would be better served by closer relations between the kernel project and projects managing low-level utilities like systemd. 
  * [eBPF - The Future of Networking & Security](https://cilium.io/blog/2020/11/10/ebpf-future-of-networking/ "eBPF - The Future of Networking & Security") — Cilium is an open source project that has been designed on top of eBPF to address the networking, security, and visibility requirements of container workloads. It provides a high-level abstraction on top of eBPF. Cilium is to eBPF what Kubernetes and container runtimes are to Linux kernel namespaces, cgroups, and seccomp
  * [Linux App Summit 2020](https://linuxappsummit.org/ "Linux App Summit 2020")