This article presents a cracker idea—the kernel module exploit—and shows how you can improve your system's security by using some of the same ideas and techniques. First, I will discuss the origin of ...

And since containers could trigger loading an arbitrary module, this meant that a hostile user potentially could load an ELF module, redirect it back to the main kernel, and execute its attacking code ...

Codecademy Teaches Basic Programming Syntax. David Galloway. September 18, 2011 ... the final lesson offers a lot of great resources to expand the basic kernel of programming skills taught.

A patch was finalized by the module's maintainers by October 21 and released on lore.kernel.org four days later. The fix has now also been added to the mainline repository, released on October 29 ...