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.

A proposal to help Linus Torvalds keep up with patches for Linux has sparked a controversy over whether the operating system has outgrown its creator. On Monday, Rob Landley, a computer programmer, ...

Just what every Linux system administrator wants just before the holidays: A serious Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux ...

A critical Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-31431 or 'Copy Fail,' allows local attackers to gain root access with a 732-byte exploit. Public proof-of-concept code is already circulating, and CISA ...

The Linux server operating system, used globally to power the internet, along with cloud storage, back-end business operations, embedded systems, and high-performance supercomputers, has a tarnished ...

A flaw in Debian’s samba implementation, a LanManager-like package for Unix, could be exploited to run arbitrary code on the affected machine with root privileges. Attackers could also gain root ...

Linux kernel maintainers have backported a workaround to Linux 6.1.19 and Linux 6.2.6 from Linux 6.3-rc2 to fix system stuttering on some AMD machines. According to Phoronix, the updates were ...