A vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s networking stack gives any user with local shell access a reliable path to full root ...

Linux admins reeling from handling last month’s CopyFail and last week’s Dirty Frag kernel vulnerabilities have a new ...

Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds is fuming over an "idiotic" bug that slipped into the final Linux kernel 4.8 release. Announcing the 4.8 release on Sunday, Torvalds' correspondence on the Linux ...

The Linux kernel config system, Kconfig, uses a macro language very similar to the make build tool's macro language. There are a few differences, however. And of course, make is designed as a ...