Unique, versatile cross-cache attack. SLUBStick makes use of the heap vulnerabilities, which refer to the flaws affecting the “heap” region of a process’ memory that is responsible for ...

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 ...

Linux's remarkable journey from one dev's hobby to 40 million lines of code - and counting What tech titans Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates talked about in their first meeting ...

Image: iStock. Numerous Linux distributions are patching a serious flaw that has remained unnoticed in the kernel since about 2005. The so-called double-free bug in the Linux kernel has been or is ...