Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ...

A whole range of Ubuntu sites and services seem to be affected.

The flaw allows an unprivileged local user to write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux ...

With Flash GA, the company is attempting to transition from being a provider of raw compute to becoming the essential ...

A flaw in the Linux kernel present since 2017 allows a local user to gain root access on virtually every major Linux distribution. A public exploit is available and reported to work reliably.Key ...

If you're too impatient to wait for Valve's Steam Machine, developer and modder Andy Nguyen has created a solution, at least ...

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Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed "Copy Fail" that impacts Linux kernels ...

CVE-2026-31431 CVSS 7.8 flaw since 2017 enables root via 732-byte exploit, impacting major Linux distributions.

The critical "Copy Fail" bug (CVE-2026-31431) affects all Linux kernels since 2017, allowing unprivileged local users to gain ...

Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) ...