Change log: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/details/277966/

GNOME Boxes lead developer Felipe Borges has been overhauling the application with a major rewrite and today announced the new beta release. GNOME Boxes has migrated to using the GTK4 toolkit and libadwaita. The new GNOME Boxes code can also handle installing Microsoft Windows 11 now without needing any manual workarounds for Secure Boot or TPM requirements.

The new GNOME Boxes code also introduces a VSOCK device for accessing VM contexts and other improvements. With the revamped GNOME Boxes, it's also shifting to a Flatpak-first and only model for distributing of new GNOME Boxes releases.

Fixes are available for 3 vulnerabilities reported in snapd, each with assigned CVE IDs and CVSS scores.

• CVE-2026-8933, discovered by Qualys, allows local attackers to escalate privileges. It impacts default installations of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The CVSS 3.1 score assigned to the vulnerability is 7.8 (high).
• CVE-2026-15226, discovered by Zygmunt Krynicki, Canonical team member, allows local attackers to escape snap confinement from confined root to unconfined root. The CVSS 3.1 score assigned to the vulnerability is 8.4 (high).
• CVE-2024-5300 discovered by James Henstridge, Canonical team member, allows a sandboxed application to access hashed user passwords. This vulnerability impacts installations of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu, 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS where systemd-userdbd is available. The CVSS 3.1 score assigned to the vulnerability is 5.6 (medium).

Affected releases

The following table lists the affected snaps. Revisions with patches will be updated as they are released.

The snapd package distributed via the Ubuntu archive is also affected in the following releases. Fixes have been released as security updates.

While carbonaceous chondrites make up only a small portion of the meteorites sampled on Earth, CO chondrites make up a very tiny fraction of those meteorites. According to the study, these types of meteorites are among the most pristine materials in our Solar System.

According to the study, the Cretaceous-Paleogene impactor was about six to nine miles wide and created a massive crater in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It was eventually named the Chicxulub crater.

“Being impacted by such a rare, distant projectile really underscores how unlucky the dinosaurs were,” Claeys said.