Linux Kernel 6.17 Released, This is What's New - OMG! Ubuntu
Linux kernel 6.17 is released with Intel Xe3 graphics, SmartMux support for AMD hybrid GPUs, Legion Go S drivers, SSD write improvements – and a lot more!| OMG! Ubuntu
Canonical has released a series of important security updates addressing vulnerabilities in fetchmail, Go Cryptography, and multiple Linux kernel variants used across Oracle Cloud and AWS environments. These updates patch flaws that could lead to crashes, privilege leaks, or system compromises. Ubuntu has rolled out four security notices USN-7838-1, USN-7839-1, USN-7795-4, and USN-7833-3 between October […] The post Ubuntu Security Roundup: Fixes for fetchmail, Go Cryptography, Linux Kernel...| UbuntuPIT
Linux kernel 6.17 is released with Intel Xe3 graphics, SmartMux support for AMD hybrid GPUs, Legion Go S drivers, SSD write improvements – and a lot more!| OMG! Ubuntu
For decades, the phrase “Year of the Linux Desktop” has been tossed around like a tech industry punchline. But now, it’s no longer a meme—it’s a movement. According to the U.S. government’s own analytics, GNU/Linux has officially crossed the 6% threshold in desktop usage. That’s not hype. That’s hard data. The post The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning appeared first on Purism.| Purism
Linux kernel 6.14 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, and much more.| 9to5Linux
A tale about exploiting KernelCTF Mitigation, Debian, and Ubuntu instances with a double-free in nf_tables in the Linux kernel, using novel techniques like Dirty Pagedirectory. All without even having to recompile the exploit for different kernel targets once.| Pwning Tech
After several solid months of development the Linux 6.8 kernel has been officially released. This kernel is of particular note to Ubuntu users as it's the| OMG! Ubuntu
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Hi folks, in this post I'm going to walk through how to setup the linux kernel for debugging. I will also demonstrate that the setup works by setting a break-point to a test driver I wrote myself. All the code will be available from my gitlab, all the links to my gitlab will be re-posted at the end. | k3170
Kernel symbols are names of functions and variables. Global symbols are those which are available outside the file they are declared in. Global symbols in the Linux kernel currently running on a sy…| Binary Debt
In higher level languages like Java and C#, one can recover from unexpected bahaviour using try/catch like language constructs. Things are different inside Linux kernel. The code is considered trus…| Binary Debt
VT-x is name of CPU virtualisation technology by Intel. KVM is component of Linux kernel which makes use of VT-x. And QEMU is a user-space application which allows users to create virtual machines.…| Binary Debt
Our last post left the story of paging in Linux on x86 incomplete. Today we will cover that. This is a vast topic whose tentacles go far and wide into almost all aspects of the kernel. So we will c…| Binary Debt
Background: Address space segmentation basically means dividing all possible virtual addresses into groups – segments – and applying some properties on those segments, e.g. privilege le…| Binary Debt
Following the adventure of manually discovering network-based vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, I'm adding ksmbd-fuzzing functionality to the already extensive kernel-fuzzing tool that is Syzkaller.| Pwning Tech
