The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.

Sockets provide an interface into the kernel’s networking protocols by allowing programmers to create a communication endpoint in the form of a file descriptor, and by binding a name to the file ...

Update: Added a link HERE to possible mitigation measures as recommended by Red Hat for a local privilege escalation security flaw found in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) module during 2010.

The open-source Linux operating system contains a serious security flaw that can be exploited to gain superuser rights on a target system.The vulnerability, in the Linux implementation of the Reliable ...