A use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor can be triggered from a guest virtual machine to corrupt the shadow-page state of the host kernel that runs it. Dubbed 'Januscape' and tracked as ...

A Linux kernel race condition disclosed July 3 lets any unprivileged local user become root on desktops, servers, and Android devices running kernel v6.4 or later — and the researcher who found it ...

Phoronix Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that ...

There’s a line in a [Weird Al] (no relation) song that says, “I upgrade my system at least twice a day…” I know how that is. I primarily use a rolling distro, OpenSuse Tumbleweed, and if I’m having a ...

Most Linux users have no idea their systems load thousands of kernel modules by default, even though only a small fraction are actually needed during normal operation. The rest sit quietly in the ...

A Linux-based command-and-control (C2) framework capable of long-term intrusion across cloud and enterprise environments has been further analyzed in new research. Known as VoidLink, the malware ...

The Linux security landscape just reached an important milestone. Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) has officially hit version 1.0, marking its transition from a long-running experimental project into ...

In an era where security threats continually evolve, protecting the heart of an operating system, the kernel, has never been more critical. One tool gaining traction in the Linux world is the Linux ...

We have observed that when attempting to run a VirtualBox image in Oracle VirtualBox, an error appears stating that VirtualBox is not signed with a build certificate ...

Please confirm this issue does not happen with the proprietary driver (of the same version). This issue tracker is only for bugs specific to the open kernel driver ...

In case you don’t know, Hyper-V and other virtual machine software do not get along on the same computer. You must choose either Hyper-V or any other third-party virtual machine software. In this case ...