Last week the schedule for our weekly security column collided with the Independence Day holiday. The upside is that we get a two-for-one deal this week, as we’re covering two weeks worth of news, and ...
Al Viro does not often stray outside of the core virtual filesystem area; when he does, it is usually worthy of note. Recently, he wandered into memory management with this patch series to the slab ...
On July 16, Brad Spengler disclosed an easily-exploitable kernel vulnerability based on getting the kernel to dereference a null pointer. This security hole affected a version of the kernel which had ...
A low-severity vulnerability was found in all versions of the open source graphics library libpng dating back to 1995. The vulnerability, which has been patched, could have been used for remote denial ...
I've had to do a lot of work with pointers when working with the API. Hopefully some of you might find these items useful when you have to do the same. Obviously, you will need StrPtr, VarPtr, and ...
A low-severity vulnerability was found in all versions of the open source graphics library libpng dating back to 1995. The vulnerability, which has been patched, could have been used for remote denial ...