A novel Linux Kernel cross-cache attack named SLUBStick has a 99% success in converting a limited heap vulnerability into an arbitrary memory read-and-write capability, letting the researchers elevate ...
Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts ...
Linus Torvalds released the third release candidate (RC3) for Linux Kernel 7.0 on March 8, 2026. While early versions of a ...
In particular, memory areas used as input and/or output are isolated from the rest of the kernel and surrounded by guard pages. Without arch hooks, this common base provides weak isolation. On ...
Linus Torvalds released the second release candidate (RC2) for Linux Kernel 7.0. Here's what's new in Linux 7.0-rc2.
The new attack method can leak privileged kernel memory on CPUs released in the past six years that have hardware mitigations for speculative execution and branch injection attacks like Spectre. Six ...
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 ...