CVE-2026-47271 pam_usb: OOM guards removed by -DNDEBUG cause NULL dereference and authentication process crash

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, src/mem.c implemented out-of-memory guards for xmalloc, xrealloc, and xstrdup using assertdata != NULL. The C standard specifies that all assert expressions are compiled out when NDEBUG is defined at...

ALPINE-CVE-2026-23557

Any guest can cause xenstored to crash by issuing a XSRESETWATCHES command within a transaction due to an assert triggering. In case xenstored was built with NDEBUG defined nothing bad will happen, as assert is doing nothing in this case. Note that the default is not to define NDEBUG for xenstore...