The new feature will ship as a LSM (Linux Security Module) in the soon-to-be-released Linux kernel 5.4 branch, where it will be turned off by default; usage being optional due to the risk of ...

Named Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), this is a loadable kernel module that will perform runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel. Its purpose is to detect exploitation attempts for known ...

This protocol is implemented in a kernel module package with major Linux distros. On Thursday, SentinelOne researchers said that CodeQL has been used recently in bug hunting investigations on ...

Linux is driven by open-source imperatives. So, naturally, Linux's kernel developers have a problem with closed-source kernel modules. And, just as naturally, they've hacked up a statement they hope ...

DKMS is a convenient framework that allows a kernel module to be automatically rebuilt from source against each new Linux kernel as it is installed—but it's not bulletproof. A user with a single ...

module integration, and testing provided by Ubuntu. "Controlling a laster with Linux is crazy," Torvalds said at the Kernel Summit of 2006, "but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way.

An exploitable bug sitting in a popular Linux kernel module, has been found after five years, researchers have claimed. Detailing the findings in a blog post, researcher Samuel Page from ...