A new Linux kernel bug lets an ordinary, unprivileged user become root. It now hits Android too. Researchers have named it Bad Epoll. The Bad Epoll vulnerability carries the identifier CVE-2026-46242.

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When a crash occurs, you often only know which function failed, but not the exact instruction – especially when registers are unexpectedly corrupted. kprobe_inspect automatically handles instruction ...

A new high-security zero-day vulnerability that has lurked in the Linux kernel since 2017 has just been found with the help of AI. This nine-year-old flaw, dubbed ‘Copy Fail’, was discovered by ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Copy Fail” that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root ...

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France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further ...

One point in favor of the sprawling Linux ecosystem is its broad hardware support—the kernel officially supports everything from ’90s-era PC hardware to Arm-based Apple Silicon chips, thanks to ...

Welcome to Linux Kernel Crash Debug Skill! This is a Claude Code skill that helps you debug Linux kernel crashes using the crash utility. linux-kernel-crash-debug/ ├── SKILL.md # Main skill file ...

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