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In a previous article [“An Event Mechanism for Linux”, LJ, July 2003], we introduced the necessity for Linux to adopt a native and generic event mechanism in the context of telecom. Many existing ...

NSA Security Enhanced Linux has its roots in the distributed trusted operating system (DTOS) and Flask (Flux advanced security kernel) architecture. The DTOS Project was a collaborative effort between ...

The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...

Topic ===== local root exploit in Linux kernel due to bug in brk() system call Problem Description ===== A flaw in bounds checking in the do_brk() function in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.22 and ...

Topic ===== local root exploit in linux kernel Problem Description ===== he Linux kernel has a security flaw that is known as ptrace/modprobe bug: The local attacker can use ptrace and attach to a ...

Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...