It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. This change, which started in the early 2000s, was not just about having a fully open source ...
The Linux kernel stack is a tempting target for attack. This is because the kernel needs to keep track of where it is. If a function gets called, which then calls another, which then calls another, ...
Attackers can locally exploit the privilege escalation vulnerability to gain root access over Linux, Solaris and BSD machines. This is bad news for Unix-based servers, and even more so for ...