Posts Tagged ‘kernel’
Interview 20th anniversary of the kernel
linuxfr.org: “LinuxFR : You’ve been doing Linux for about 20 years now and it’s a hard job. Is it still fun ? Linus Torvalds : Oh, absolutely. It’s still fun. And partly exactly because I’ve been d...
Interesting kernel exploit posted
LWN : “I’ve included here a proof-of-concept local privilege escalation exploit for Linux. Please read the header for an explanation of what’s going on. Without further ado, I present full-nelson.c: *This is t...
Detecting Memory Leaks in Kernel
Rants & Rambles: “The Linux kernel is predominantly written in C, so that programmers can stay close to the hardware. Also there were no large-scale managed languages at the time the project was started. There are so...
Linux kernel performance is good as benchmarks show
Phoronix: “While we have conducted studies related to the Linux kernel performance in the past such as benchmarking up to twelve kernel releases, going out the door this morning are the results from the largest-ever Linux...
Keeping numbers of Kernel on Fedora
The last updated yum package, several weeks ago, removed the 2.6.33 kernel on my system as part of the process involved in adding the latest 2.6.34 kernel. If you can’t give up 2.6.33 kernel now, It’s the only kerne...
Ksplice – Update Linux kernel without reboot
Ksplice uses new technology to build security updates for Linux that can be installed without restarting. The technology was developed by cofounder Jeff Arnold while he was a graduate student at MIT, and last week, it won the g...
Linux kernel update for openSUSE
Linux Compatible: “SUSE Security Announcement Package: kernel Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2010:039 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 Vulnerability Type: local privilege escalation CVSS v2...
Root privileges through Linux kernel bug – Update
H-online: “As a potential attack scenario, Wojtczuk describes the X Server, where the distance between the boundaries of the heap and stack can be made very small by filling the memory with data such as pixmaps. A subsequ...
Linux 2.6.35 has been released
KernelNewbies: “Summary: Linux 2.6.35 includes support for transparent spreading of incoming network load across CPUs, Direct-IO support for Btrfs, an new experimental journal mode for XFS, the KDB debugger UI based on to...
Stable kernel 2.6.32.15 released
Stable kernel 2.6.32.15 has been released. “It reverts two patches that were previously applied that shouldn’t have been in the .32 kernel series. If you don’t have any problems with the 2.6.34.14 2.6.32.14 ke...
