The Linux USB subsystem has grown from supporting only two different types of devices in the 2.2.7 kernel (mice and keyboards), to over 20 different types of devices in the 2.4 kernel. Linux currently ...

USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers. The vast majority of these ...

Google researcher Andrey Konovalov has revealed 14 flaws in Linux kernel USB drivers that he found using a kernel fuzzer called 'syzkaller', created by another Google security researcher, Dmitry ...

Live Linux environments work just like a typical operating system but run entirely from a CD or USB stick – the latter being the most common choice these days. Since nothing is written to the host ...