Introduced in 2007, the CIFSwitch Linux kernel bug allows users to modify CIFS key description fields and gain root ...

Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has warned users to update their Linux systems following the discovery of a 9-year-old root access vulnerability.

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 ...

Not every Linux distro is at risk.

Dirty Frag, a critical Linux kernel zero-day vulnerability with no patch and giving hackers root, has gone public after an embargo was broken. Here’s the workaround.

PoC code has been released for DirtyDecrypt, a recently patched Linux kernel vulnerability allowing privilege escalation to root.

The Linux "Copy Fail" vulnerability, which grants attackers root privileges, became known before the weekend. It is already ...

A new Linux vulnerability known as 'Dirty Pipe' allows local users to gain root privileges through publicly available exploits. Today, security researcher Max Kellermann responsibly disclosed the ...

I've done some reading about immutable Linux distros and, well, I guess I don't get what all the fuss is about. The idea seems to be to 'harden' a system by making it hard to modify, but. . . Isn't ...