Academics say they discovered 26 new vulnerabilities in the USB driver stack employed by operating systems such as Linux, MacOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. The research team, made up by Hui Peng from ...

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, ...

USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers. The vast majority of these ...

Google researcher Andrey Konovalov has revealed 14 flaws in Linux kernel USB drivers that he found using a kernel fuzzer called 'syzkaller', created by another Google security researcher, Dmitry ...

Technical information has emerged for a serious vulnerability affecting multiple Linux kernel versions that could be triggered with "minimal capabilities." The security issue is being referred to as ...

The high-severity RCE flaw is in the KCodes NetUSB kernel module, used by popular routers from Netgear, TP-Link, DLink, Western Digital, et al. Millions of popular end-user routers are at risk of ...

Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported to Linux administrators in mid-June. The bug, which the ...

A local-privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects all current versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, even in their default/minimal installations. It would allow an ...