Affecting millions of systems, a kernel flaw discovered by Qualys could allow users to gain root privileges.

Hiding out for nearly 15 years, the Ghostlock vulnerability allows a standard logged-in user to gain root privileges.

A 16-year-old vulnerability allows an attacker to escape a virtual machine, gain access to the host, and execute malicious code.

Using the cloc utility, Michael Larabel of Phoronix discovered that Linux kernel 7.2 has over 43 million lines of code.

A developer changed three lines of code, giving Linux storage performance a 5% bump.

Qualys has discovered a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be used to elevate standard user privileges.

AI is giving Linus Torvalds a headache, but not in the way you might think.

With the rise of Linux vulnerabilities, the kernel developers are now considering adding a component that could help temporarily mitigate against them… in the form of a kill switch.