Here you will find all the articles with the tag: linux kernel.
Researchers from CM4all discovered that the Linux kernel was hit by Dirty Pipe, a vulnerability that allows hackers to inject malicious code into root processes. According to CM4all researchers, the vulnerability allows hackers to overwrite data with malicious code in read-only files. Injecting ... Read more
2 years ago
William Liu, one of the developers of Linux, found a bug in the Linux kernel. All kernel versions since February 2019 have been vulnerable to buffer overflows. Bugs in the Linux kernel are rare, but conceivable nonetheless. William Liu (Linux kernel developer) found a vulnerability in fs/fs_cont... Read more
2 years ago
Alpine releases a new version of its compact and secure Linux distribution. The distribution includes new functionality and the latest LTS Linux kernel. Alpine 3.15 is on par with the latest LTS Linux kernel v5.15. New functionality includes the 16.13 LTS version of Node.js, as well as version 1... Read more
2 years ago
Linus Torvalds releases the first release candidate (rc1) of the 5.16 Linux kernel. Among other things, the release introduces the Memory Folios functionality, which improves kernel and Postgres workload performance. The update was developed relatively quickly. Linux godfather Torvalds notes tha... Read more
2 years ago
The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.15, gaining lots of functionality. 5.15 is the latest Long Term Support version for this year. According to Linus Torvalds, the release of the Linux kernel is the result of a 'calm' development process, despite the outcry from developers over the so... Read more
2 years ago
QNAP has released QTS 5.0 which comes with some major updates to the company’s NAS operating system. The main highlights of v5.0 include an upgraded Linux Kernel (5.10), better security, enhanced NVMe SSD cache performance, and WireGuard VPN support. Some of the notable additions to QTS includ... Read more
3 years ago
Linus Torvalds plans to pull Paragon Software’s NTFS driver into the 5.15 kernel source. However, he complained about the use of GitHub merge in the submission, saying that it creates “absolutely useless garbage merges.” Early last month, Torvalds made it known to Paragon Software that it ... Read more
3 years ago
Version 5.14 of the Linux kernel is on its way and may debut next week, after going through a rather uneventful development process. Linus Torvalds started this version on July 11th when he announced rc1 and told users to not expect any huge surprises and size-wise, to expect something within th... Read more
3 years ago
Systemd, the Linux system and service manager, has become more prevalent than init as a Linux startup and control program. However, it has always faced criticism from some quarters. Now, after the discovery of a security bug in systemd by Qualys, systemd will have even more critics. How bad is t... Read more
3 years ago
Linus Torvalds published the first release candidate for version 5.14 of the Linux kernel. Torvalds had some remarks accompanying the release, where he made clear his hopes that the release cycle will be smooth, with observations about the smoothness of the process related to the size of the releas... Read more
3 years ago
