Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

After years of countless reviews, discussions, and code rewrites, Linus Torvalds approved on Saturday a new security feature for the Linux kernel, named "lockdown." The new feature will ship as a LSM ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Canonical confirms Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will ship with Linux kernel 6.20 (7.0) in April, bringing latest hardware support and performance improvements to users.

Kernel drivers are the bridge between the Linux operating system and the hardware components of a computer. They play a crucial role in managing and facilitating communication between the OS and ...

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Unprivileged attackers can gain root privileges by exploiting a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in default configurations of the Linux Kernel's filesystem layer on vulnerable devices.

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...

Unfortunately for kernel developers, allocating memory in the kernel is not as simple as allocating memory in user space. A number of factors contribute to the complication, among them: The kernel is ...