# Major Linux distributions issue widespread security updates

> **Key takeaway:** Multiple major Linux distributions, including Debian, SUSE, Oracle, and Ubuntu, have released security patches for various critical packages.

**Published:** 2026-10-16T13:17:44+00:00 
**Source:** Linux Weekly News (LWN.net) 
**Category:** kernel-os 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/major-linux-distributions-issue-widespread-security-updates.html 

## Summary
A series of security updates has been rolled out by several major Linux distributions. Affected software ranges from kernels and web browsers like Chromium to networking tools and language runtimes, impacting users across AlmaLinux, Debian, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu.

## Affected software and distributions
- **Oracle and AlmaLinux**: Updates for ghostscript, grafana, hplip, libsoup3, rpcbind, and wireshark.
- **Debian**: Patches for chromium, cifs-utils, expat, gst-plugins, jpeg-xl, and mutt.
- **SUSE**: Extensive updates including kernel, openssh, qemu, wpa_supplicant, and numerous Python 3.13 modules.
- **Ubuntu**: Security fixes for golang-1.23, linux-azure, and rabbitmq-server.
- **Red Hat**: Updates for the gd library.