The bug allows users to bypass privilege restrictions to execute commands as root. A vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even ...

Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in widely deployed Linux components that could allow unprivileged users to gain root access across popular distributions. The first is a local privilege ...

Security researcher Sebastian Krahmer has recently discovered that a previously known security flaw in the systemd project can be used for more than crashing a Linux distro but also to grant local ...

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 ...

Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C ...