Dirty Frag exposes Linux systems to root escalation through chained kernel flaws, impacting Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, and others.
It takes 732 bytes. That is roughly the length of this paragraph, and it is all an attacker needs to seize full root control ...
Dirty Frag is a newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting kernel networking and ...
Security researchers have discovered a new, critical flaw in the Linux kernel that attackers can exploit to gain root access.
Linux is well-known for its security advantages over many other operating systems, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to problems. A Linux kernel flaw first discovered earlier this month, for example, ...
Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a frightening new Linux rootkit, dubbed Quasar Linux (QLNX,) and developers should be especially concerned. Per the report (which we spotted through Bleeping ...
Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by exploiting a year-old firmware vulnerability when it remains ...
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Security engineer Andy Nguyen has released ps5-linux, a complete toolchain enabling Linux to run on PlayStation 5 'Phat' consoles with firmware 3.xx–4.xx. The soft-mod uses a hypervisor exploit and ...