Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by ...

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 ...

Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.2 introduces a dynamic load balancer, among other features, and expands SDN capabilities with WireGuard and BGP. Vienna-based Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has released ...

A new variant in the Dirty Frag family of Linux local privilege escalation flaws has surfaced, the third root-level Linux kernel bug disclosed in three weeks. According to new analysis from cloud ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Copy Fail” that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as ...

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The Linux kernel community has formally clarified that it will allow contributors to use AI coding tools, provided a human takes full responsibility for the results. The new documentation for "AI ...

The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions ...

Running Linux in a virtual machine is very useful, you can test, tinker, break things, and restore snapshots without touching your main system. However, Virtual machines can be resource-hungry. They ...