Learn why Linux Kernel developers want to deprecate AF_ALG features, and the security concerns driving the decision.
Introduced in 2007, the CIFSwitch Linux kernel bug allows users to modify CIFS key description fields and gain root ...
A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...
With OpenVPN 2.7 and Data Channel Offloading, VPN throughput in IPFire increases to up to 10 GBit/s. The update also closes ...
For roughly 18 years, a chunk of code inside one of the internet’s most popular web servers quietly carried a critical security flaw. Nobody caught it. Not the open-source contributors who maintained ...
Vadzo Imaging's VISPA ARC USB camera SDK extends verified support to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Linux Kernel 6.x, enabling the Falcon-1335CRS, Falcon-900MGS, Falcon-2020MRS, and Falcon-821CRS USB camera to ...
The Linux 7.0 kernel is now out, and it’s one of the most impactful releases in years for networking professionals. The Linux kernel is the core of a Linux operating system distribution. Linux is ...
The bcachefs file system, now "externally maintained" outside the Linux kernel codebase, offers packages of its first version to be loadable on the fly. The development of bcachefs has been officially ...
Abstract: In current extensible monolithic operating systems, loadable kernel modules (LKM) have unrestricted access to all portions of kernel memory and I/O space. As a result, kernel-module ...