Netflix discovers multiple 'critical' security flaws in the Linux and FreeBSD kernels' TCP stack that could lead to server outages.

Free operating system Linux is looking to Windows as its role model, at least in this one way: implementing its own Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to warn users in cases of a kernel panic.

The most serious, dubbed “SACK Panic,” allows a remotely-triggered kernel panic on recent Linux kernels,” the advisory stated. Netflix researchers added that there are patches for most of these ...

Linux kernel version 6.13 is set for a November release, so this could make the cut, though it is a bit last-minute.