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I am having a issue with a kernel panic happening once every few days on one of my desktops. It runs Linux Mint 17, and the panics seem to involve the same set of functions in the call trace. I can't ...

I recently installed Linux for the first time in over a year (at least I think it's been that long) since I got another machine to work with (my last died and couldn't afford to fix it). I started ...

Unprivileged attackers can gain root privileges by exploiting a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in default configurations of the Linux Kernel's filesystem layer on vulnerable devices.

The extended filesystem, otherwise known as ext, has been a fundamental part of Linux since before the 1.0 release in 1994. Currently the filesystem is on its fourth major revision, in use since its ...