Google Improves Android Linux Kernel Security With Control-Flow Integrity Protection. ... (CFI) is a security policy that ensures software execution at run-time must follow the path of a previously ...

Like all C/C++ programs, the Linux Kernel regularly suffers from memory corruption flaws. A common way for attackers to gain execution control is to target function pointers that were saved to memory.

Linux kernel dev team grows, Torvalds drops off the chart Written by ZDNet UK, Contributor Aug. 20, 2009 at 9:54 p.m. PT The 2009 report on the state of Linux kernel development has been published ...

The goal of path-sensitive analysis (PSA) is to achieve accuracy by accounting precisely for the execution behavior along each path of a control flow graph (CFG). A practical adoption of PSA is ...

Back in September, The Register's networking desk chatted to a company called Teclo about the limitations of TCP performance in the Linux stack. That work, described here, included moving TCP/IP ...