An eight-year-old Samsung KNOX vulnerability impacted millions of Android-powered Galaxy devices from the S9 to S25.

Linux kernel maintainers released a June 20 Linux 7.2 merge that removes the legacy C string-copy function strncpy from kernel code. Kernel-side is the key scope: strncpy remains part of user-space C ...

Linux developers have been trimming the fluff in recent years, removing support for older processors that hardly anyone uses ...

Secure Boot has always been a nuisance for Linux users, but now that Microsoft's 2011 certificate authorities are expiring, ...

The Linux Kernel Crypto API provides kernel-level cryptographic operations accessible to both kernel modules and user-space applications through AF_ALG sockets. User-space applications communicate ...

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Microsoft Defender is investigating a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) affecting multiple major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and AWS ...

CVE-2026-31431 - Copy Fail is a logic flaw in the Linux kernel's authencesn cryptographic template. It allows an unprivileged local user to perform a controlled 4-byte write into the page cache of any ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

All Linux kernels released after 2017 are vulnerable to critical privilege escalation bugs. A tiny 732-byte exploit grants root privileges across all major Linux distributions, with containerized ...