The flaw is in the same family as Dirty Frag and allows privilege escalation at kernel level.

Linux is getting a security wake-up call - why it was inevitable and I'm not worried ...

Linux developers had a code before, but the earlier "Code of Conflict," failed to make the kernel community a more civil group. As Greg Kroah-Hartman, a leading Linux kernel developer wrote, the "Code ...

Last week, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the current maintainer of the stable branch of the open source Linux kernel, issued a message on the Linux code maintainers mail list announcing that it was removing ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

Turns out freedom and flexibility are great for coding.

On Sunday, Linus Torvalds – the chief programmer of the Linux kernel – sent out a letter in which he apologized for his hostile behavior towards others in the community that maintains the project. He ...

A critical vulnerability affecting certain configurations of the Exim open-source mail transfer agent could be exploited by ...

reviously the Linux kernel had a "Code of Conflict" that some might feel is rather harsh. But now it's been replaced by a Code of Conduct that is derived from the Contributor Covenant that has been ...