Researchers contend almost all Linux OS flaws could be mitigated to less-than-critical severity with an OS design based on a verified microkernel. In an exhaustive study of critical Linux ...

A serious bug in the open-source GnuTLS library, used by many Linux distributions, undermines the encryption that keeps Web traffic safe from snoops and attackers and is similar to the "goto fail" ...

For more than two years, the Linux operating system has contained a high-severity vulnerability that gives untrusted users with restricted accounts nearly unfettered "root" access over machines, ...