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Last year, a CVE-2019-19126 vulnerability was discovered in glibc, where the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable is not ignored when running binaries with the setuid flag on x86_64 architectures. This allows an...

Every month, the KernelCare team strives to help you never miss a critical patch. This September, we worked extremely hard to swiftly release CVE–2020-14386 patches for your Proxmox 5 &...

CVE-2020-14386 is a new kernel vulnerability that can be exploited to gain root privileges from unprivileged processes. It corrupts the memory in kernels newer than 4.6 on various Linux distributions,...

To help administrators manage hundreds of servers with open-source libraries, KernelCare released UChecker – a scanner that checks network Linux servers and detects out-of-date libraries both on disk and in...

Rebooting servers hurts you and your customers. It’s often done during off-peak hours (usually at night) when servers process fewer transactions, but even rebooting at this time costs thousands in...

The dreaded false positive exhaustion experienced by analysts brings with it numerous issues. Analysts begin ignoring reports, reviewing a false positive takes time and money, and incident response and threat...

Within any IT organization, there exist processes so routine and well-established that they become practically a given—with little concern for whether such processes and practices could be improved upon. Time...

August was a busy month for us, as always. We added more distributions to the KernelCare+ Beta testing. You can be part of it. If you are running Debian 9...

Most developers are used to a graphical interface for development, so when diving into the world of IoT and embedded Linux development, it’s a new experience that requires more low-level...

What to do if you see the “Unknown kernel” error while using...

Every month we do a lot of under-the-hood improvements to KernelCare which you may not notice, but trust us, it makes your KernelCare experience better. We’ve decided to publish these...

A Managed Services provider from Amsterdam, Webslice, was spending a lot of time and effort patching Linux kernel vulnerabilities. When it began using KernelCare, its kernel patching became much quicker...