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 ...
Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...
Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by ...
WSL 3 GPU passthrough for Windows arrives at Microsoft Build 2026, letting developers run Ollama, PyTorch, and llama.cpp ...
Introduced in 2007, the CIFSwitch Linux kernel bug allows users to modify CIFS key description fields and gain root ...
A recently patched local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's rxgk module now has a proof-of-concept exploit that allows attackers to gain root access on some Linux systems. Named ...
In addition to a lot of AI and virtualization, there was also news in the area of Linux distribution at the Red Hat Summit: Fedora Hummingbird Linux – also called HummingbirdOS – is here. This is a ...
Learn why Linux Kernel developers want to deprecate AF_ALG features, and the security concerns driving the decision.