Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linux camp When one considers open source, it's fairly easy to imagine a world of designers, developers, and distributors getting ...

The flaw is in the same family as Dirty Frag and allows privilege escalation at kernel level.

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s networking stack gives any user with local shell access a reliable path to full root ...

PoC code has been released for DirtyDecrypt, a recently patched Linux kernel vulnerability allowing privilege escalation to ...

Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, ...

Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel cleans out nearly 100K lines of code, adds file encryption and the Berkeley Packet Filter, plus makes a nod to gamers and mobile devices. The recent release of ...

A local, race condition vulnerability in the af_packet implementation in Linux was patched this week. The bug allows a local attacker to execute code or crash a server. A critical, local ...

In an historic move, Microsoft on Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called ...