Security News

Ubuntu Patches Kernel Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2016-04-06 19:49

Several vulnerabilities in Ubuntu’s Linux kernel, including a use-after-free vulnerability and a timing side channel vulnerability, were patched today.

Ubuntu Patches Privilege-Escalation Bug (Threatpost)
2015-06-22 14:16

There is a privilege-escalation vulnerability in several versions of Ubuntu that results from the fact that the operating system fails to check permissions when users are creating files in some...