Public exploits for four patched Linux kernel flaws let local users gain root; three require unprivileged user namespaces.

Discovery of the Copy Fail Linux kernel exploit sparked widespread discussion and concern around Linux kernel security earlier this month, and that was for an exploit that had mostly already been ...

A working exploit for a Linux kernel flaw that has existed since 2011 is now publicly available, and any logged-in user can run it to gain full root control of an affected machine in roughly five ...

Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation vulnerability to patch. The latest, a memory-management flaw tracked as CVE-2026-46300 ...

A Linux AF_UNIX use-after-free can escape containers for host root; exploit code targets Ubuntu 26.04, which remains unpatched.

A pwn.ai AI agent reportedly escaped a KVM guest during Google's kvmCTF after weeks of exploit development, building a 14,338 ...

BlueMoon chains Chrome V8 flaws with a Windows kernel exploit to deploy GemStone, ShadowPad, and Rust-based malware in ...

Cisco has some unusual challenges when it comes to deploying security patches across the company's many devices running custom kernels. John Fastabend spoke about his work preventing exploits with BPF ...

The Linux security landscape just reached an important milestone. Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) has officially hit version 1.0, marking its transition from a long-running experimental project into ...