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 ...

Severe vulnerabilities have been discovered in popular Linux and Unix systems that can be used to blow apart barriers to root powers, researchers have discovered. According to security firm Qualys, ...

Patches are available for a newly discovered Linux, BSD and Solaris vulnerability called Stack Clash that bypasses stack guard-page mitigations and enables root access. Linux, BSD, Solaris and other ...

Attackers can locally exploit the privilege escalation vulnerability to gain root access over Linux, Solaris and BSD machines. This is bad news for Unix-based servers, and even more so for ...

Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported to Linux administrators in mid-June. The bug, which the ...

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] ...

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, ...