A new Linux kernel bug lets an ordinary, unprivileged user become root. It now hits Android too. Researchers have named it Bad Epoll. The Bad Epoll vulnerability carries the identifier CVE-2026-46242.

Linux kernel privilege escalation exploit DirtyClone (CVE-2026-43503) is publicly documented: JFrog published a working attack walkthrough Thursday showing how any local user can gain root on ...

ARPC is an RPC framework that is heavily inspired by Google's Protobuf and GRPC and aims to be compatible with its core C++ API. ARPC can be very useful for adding privilege separation to your ...

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that non-Linux RTOS systems lack a native epoll interface and are difficult to adapt to complex I/O applications, this paper proposes a method that supports epoll file ...

A new security patch just released for the Linux kernel. This isn't a typical headline-grabbing "instant root" exploit. Instead, it's a clever "File Descriptor (FD ...

The library can be used either as a JAR file or through Docker. It can also either print the calculated descriptors to the terminal or write them to a file using TSV ...

Like Thanos once described himself as, this OKC Thunder team has been deemed "inevitable." That's the word Bleacher Report's Zach Buckley opted to go with in his recent exercise of using one-term ...

You fire up a game you want to play with your friends, excited to jump in, and instead, you get the dreaded “Failed to Open Descriptor File” error message that ...

USB Device Descriptor Failure can occur due to system glitches, but that can be fixed with built-in hardware troubleshooters. Disabling certain power settings can help with this problem, so you might ...

aDepartment of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, UK bAddictions Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, UK ...