Linux kernel LTS releases have been critical in terms of keeping the Android OS secure for its users. They help Google, as well as device manufacturers, stay on top of security vulnerabilities ...

Pixel phones get a major kernel upgrade with Android 15 QPR2 Google upgrades all Tensor-powered Pixels with Linux kernel 6.1 in the Android 15 QPR2 release. By Mishaal Rahman • November 12, 2024 ...

The upstream Linux kernel project recently ended its six-year support lifetime commitment for LTS releases, which would’ve been bad for the security of Android devices, so Google had to step up.

Seccomp is a Linux kernel security feature designed to reduce the attack surface of applications by restricting the system calls (syscalls) they can make. It acts as a filter for the syscalls an ...

This patch series adds sandbox-mode APIs and architecture-independent infrastructure to the kernel. It runs the target function on a vmalloc () copy of all input and output data.

Dec. 7, 2023 at 9:16 a.m. PT alexsl/Getty Images The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-0728, was found and reported to the Linux kernel security team and several Linux distribution maintainers by researchers from an Israeli threat defense start-up ...

Vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel are being targeted by attackers and are being actively abused. The US IT security authority CISA is currently warning of this.

The NSA revealed its plan to port SE Linux to Android as part of a new project called SE Android at the Linux Security Summit last year. The first version was released on Jan. 6.