March 08, 2022

“Dirty Pipe” Linux kernel bug lets anyone write to any file

Even read-only files can be written to, leading to a dangerously general purpose elevation-of-privilege attack.

Naked Security

March 17, 2021

Serious Security: The Linux kernel bugs that surfaced after 15 years

Anyone could have found these bugs, but everyone assumed someone would, and in the end, no one did. (Until now.)

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November 12, 2019

Patch Tuesday targets Hyper-V virtual machines in November, 2019 updates

SophosLabs UncutThreat Research

November 16, 2016

Get root on Linux: learn the secret password

Spoiler alert: the secret password is [none], but you have to enter it over and over again.

Naked Security

October 21, 2016

Linux kernel bug: DirtyCOW “easyroot” hole and what you need to know

No sooner had we written about long-lived Linux kernel bugs...and along comes an 11-year-old vulnerability that's easy to exploit.

Naked Security

October 19, 2016

Linux kernel bugs: we add them in and then take years to get them out

A Google security researcher measured how long kernel bugs hang around in Linux after they've been introduced.

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