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

The Linux 6.8 kernel, which is under development at the time of writing, has several important improvements in the networking area, and is said to improve TCP performance by up to 40% with a large ...

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel can be exploited to leak data and act as a springboard for further compromise. Disclosed by Cisco Talos researchers on Tuesday, the bug is ...

New research has found that data centres can reduce their energy usage by up to 30% simply by altering around 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel’s network stack. Research has found that data centres ...

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT has detected a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability (Dirty Frag) disclosed online. Attackers use the logical defects of splice system calls in conjunction ...

Courtesy of the complex routing and network configurations that Cloudflare uses, their engineers like to push the Linux network stack to its limits and ideally beyond. In a blog article [Chris Branch] ...

Network protocols are formal standards and policies consisting of rules, procedures, and formats that define how data is exchanged over networks. They ensure that devices can communicate effectively, ...

The Linux kernel stack is a tempting target for attack. This is because the kernel needs to keep track of where it is. If a function gets called, which then calls another, which then calls another, ...