Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) ...
Pack2TheRoot, a high-severity vulnerability in PackageKit, allows users to install packages on Linux systems with root ...
A new vulnerability dubbed Pack2TheRoot could be exploited in the PackageKit daemon to allow local Linux users to install or ...
A logic flaw sitting undetected in the Linux kernel for nearly nine years lets any unprivileged local user gain root access ...
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 ...
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 ...