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A new Linux local-root vulnerability, nicknamed CIFSwitch by its discoverer Asim Manizada, was disclosed today on oss-security after the linux-distros embargo expired. A CVE has been requested but is not yet assigned at the time of writing. The f...

Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of two stable releases at once: AlmaLinux OS 9.8 codenamed “Olive Jaguar” and

We have a venue! AlmaLinux Day: Los Angeles will take place Saturday, July 18, 2026, at the E-Central Downtown Los Angeles Hotel at 1020 S Figueroa St — and you can register now.

These are the seats waiting for you. The room is real, the date is locked, a...

If you’re keeping a tally at home, this is the fourth local-root Linux kernel disclosure we have written about in roughly two weeks. At this rate the AlmaLinux build servers and core team are going to start getting hazard pay.

The new flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-46333<...

Less than a week after Dirty Frag, researcher William Bowling of the V12 security team has disclosed a third Linux kernel local-root flaw in the same broad code area (IPsec ESP / rxrpc) that they have named Fragnesia, tracked as