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 ...

Unprivileged attackers can get a root shell by exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in the polkit auth system service installed by default on many modern Linux distributions. The polkit ...

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 local-privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects all current versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, even in their default/minimal installations. It would allow an ...

Researchers have warned of a critical vulnerability affecting the OpenSSH networking utility that can be exploited to give attackers complete control of Linux and Unix servers with no authentication ...

There is a critical security flaw in the Linux tool "sudo" and makes unprivileged users "root", the system administrator, in no time at all. The reason for the malaise: a bug in the chroot function of ...