Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by default in Ubuntu Linux since version 21.04, which were introduced over 10 years ago. The ...

A vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) could allow a standard user to create accounts with increased privileges, giving a local attacker a path to run code with administrator permissions (root ...

If you’re new to the ZFS hype train, you might wonder why a new filesystem option in an OS installer is a big deal. So here’s a quick explanation: ZFS is a copy-on-write filesystem, which can take ...

Last October, an experimental ZFS installer showed up in Eoan Ermine, the second interim Ubuntu release of 2019. Next month, Focal Fossa—Ubuntu's next LTS (Long Term Support) release—is due to drop, ...