Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...

Linux kernel 6.18 delivers performance boosts, new laptop drivers, and a controversial filesystem removal, plus more key ...

The Linux kernel Out of Memory (OOM) killer is not usually invoked on desktop and server computers, because those environments contain sufficient resident memory and swap space, making the OOM ...

Kernel Breach iSEC said the vulnerability was identified in the Linux kernel memory management code inside the mremap system call and was caused by a missing function-return value-check. The security ...

Linus Torvalds, head and founder of the Linux kernel, has announced the closure of the merge window where major new features are added to the kernel, and the beginning of the Linux 6.16 release ...

Topic ===== local root exploit in Linux kernel Problem Description ===== A second vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel memory management code inside the mremap system call due to missing ...

Linux users have been warned of a serious kernel vulnerability that could leave systems open to hackers. Polish security specialist Isec Security Research has issued a warning of a memory management ...