The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...
Forbes

Critical New Linux Zero-Day Leaked—What Admins Need To Do Now

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Dirty Frag Linux zero-day confirmed. Updated May 10: This article regarding the critical ...
Ars Technica

Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

Linux users have been bitten by yet another vulnerability that gives containers and untrusted users the ability to gain root access, marking the second time in as many weeks that a severe threat has ...
TechRepublic

CISA Warning: High-Severity Linux Flaw Puts Unpatched Systems at Risk

CISA warns that the nine-year-old Linux Copy Fail flaw is being actively exploited, allowing local attackers to gain root access on affected systems. A Linux kernel flaw is giving attackers a ...
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Multiple Linux distributions affected by CIFSwitch vulnerability

Researcher Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada disclosed CIFSwitch, a Linux privilege‑escalation flaw lingering for nearly 20 years Affects major distros including Mint, CentOS Stream 9, Rocky Linux 9, ...
VentureBeat

Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook

A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms ...
TechSpot

"Copy Fail" is a rare Linux bug that can turn an unprivileged user into a root admin in seconds

Facepalm: Security researchers recently unveiled "Copy Fail," a bug that could potentially bring the entire Linux ecosystem to a screeching halt. The flaw can be reliably exploited across all ...
TMCnet

Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats

Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Endor Labs, Ericsson, Google, IBM, JPMorganChase, Microsoft and GitHub, NVIDIA, OpenAI, RapidFort, Red Hat, Rust Foundation, Sonatype, Vodafone ...