Linux kernel versions 5.10-rc4, 5.4.66, and 5.9.8 are impacted and a patch was merged on December 3 to tackle the bug. Users are urged to update their builds to later versions.

Kernel debugging systems can slow the kernel enough to hide or change the bugs they're looking for. A new tracing system would minimize the performance penalty of running with tracing on.

The Linux kernel stack is a tempting target for attack. This is because the kernel needs to keep track of where it is. If a function gets called, which then calls another, which then calls another, ...

A new privilege escalation vulnerability impacting Linux was discovered, enabling unprivileged local users to compromise the kernel and elevate their rights to attain root-level access.

Oracle Linux 6.5 also includes an updated kernel and support for Linux Containers, ... or trace, problems that occur on a system. ... or if it is in your I/O stack.

Building on its capability to trace the Linux kernel [see ``System Administration: The Linux Trace Toolkit'' in the May 2000 issue of our sister publication, Linux Journal], LTT provides a framework ...

Linux 5.9 was just released two days ago and Intel is recommending in its advisory for the high-severity Bluetooth flaw, CVE-2020-12351, to update the Linux kernel to version 5.9 or later. Linux ...

Linux lead Linus Torvalds has shifted ever-so-slightly from a "wait and see" approach in 2021 to noting in the summer of 2024 that he expected Rust updates to be faster while admitting that it's ...