When it comes to securing your enterprise endpoints, it’s important to have a foundational understanding that there are three types of files: the good, the bad and the unknown. Approaches such as ...
Linux kernel maintainers released a June 20 Linux 7.2 merge that removes the legacy C string-copy function strncpy from kernel code. Kernel-side is the key scope: strncpy remains part of user-space C ...
In the Linux kernel, some functions help determine whether a given memory address belongs to kernel code, module code, or other special regions. The following are an explanation of these functions and ...
Portable kernel library is the in-house default kernel library that covers most of the core ATen operators. It’s easy to use/read and is written in portable C++17. However it’s not optimized for ...
A weak point has been lurking in the Linux kernel since 2019. The kernel function IO_uring can be used to bypass all common security controls-for complete root access. Even leading security solutions ...
Note: this article is a followup to Zack Brown's "Android Low Memory Killer—In or Out?" Linux kernel headers are the unstable, constantly-changing, internal API of the kernel. This includes internal ...
Alexei Starovoitov posted some patches to allow the kernel to load regular ELF binaries (aka plain executables) as kernel modules. These modules would be able to run user-mode helper routines instead ...
We have noticed that sometimes, VirtualBox fails to start a virtual machine session and throws the VERR_NEM_MISSING_KERNEL_API VirtualBox error. When going through ...