The power to grab root privileges is the ultimate evil in Unix and Linux systems. Kevin Backhouse, a member of the GitHub Security Lab, found the polkit security hole in the course of his duties. He ...

A new Linux vulnerability known as 'Dirty Pipe' allows local users to gain root privileges through publicly available exploits. Today, security researcher Max Kellermann responsibly disclosed the ...

A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system. The CVE-2023-32233 ...

You can hardly mention the sudo command without recalling the hilarious XKCD strip about making sandwiches. It does seem like sudo is the magic power to make a Linux system do what you want. The only ...

Two vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu implementation of a popular container-based file system allow attackers to execute code with root privileges on 40% of Ubuntu Linux cloud workloads, researchers have ...

Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges flaw to ...

There was a time when real system administrators just logged into Unix systems as root. But as we all know — with great power comes great responsibility. It’s too easy to do terrible things when you ...

Attackers can now gain root privileges on millions of Linux systems — by exploiting an easy-to-exploit, newly discovered buffer overflow flaw in a common library used on most major distributions of ...

Qualys said the vuln gives any local user root access to systems running the most popular version of Sudo. A doozy of a bug that could allow any local user on most Linux or Unix systems to gain root ...

A recently discovered root exploit vulnerability in Linux has been found to affect Apple Inc.’s macOS as well. The vulnerability allows for an attacker to trigger a so-called heap overflow in Sudo, a ...