Dirty Frag, a critical Linux kernel zero-day vulnerability with no patch and giving hackers root, has gone public after an embargo was broken. Here’s the workaround.
You can use Linux 7.0 on these 7 distros today - here's what to expect ...
Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...
Kroah-Hartman argued that the "best beauty of Rust" is catching those mistakes at build time rather than in review. For ...
Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, ...
Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...
A vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s networking stack gives any user with local shell access a reliable path to full root ...
In his weekly state of the kernel update, Torvalds noted that the new RC5 is much larger than any other RC5 in recent memory, and he ...
PoC code has been released for DirtyDecrypt, a recently patched Linux kernel vulnerability allowing privilege escalation to ...
The Linux kernel development process is akin to a game of leapfrog. Even-numbered kernels (v2.0, v2.2, v2.4) are stable kernels, and odd-numbered kernels are unstable, or development, kernels. As soon ...
The LTS (long-term support) period for the Linux kernel is being cut down. In 2017, the kernel jumped from two years of support to six. Now, six years later, it turns out that’s a lot of work. ZDNet ...