As someone who has traveled the bug-riddled Linux road countless times, let me tell you that invoking root-level access for ...

The sudo command lets users elevate their privileges to run admin tasks. But it's far from perfect. These tips can help.

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 ...

From DoS to root privilege escalation Initially, the bug was categorized as a lowly Denial-of-Service (DoS) issue that in the worst case scenario could make Linux distros crash and reboot.

As mentioned previously, Linux continues to emulate a privileged root user. This is done by perverting the capabilities behavior of exec () and setuid (). Briefly, if your effective userid is 0 when ...

A newly discovered 12-year-old vulnerability in a Linux system tool can give attackers root privileges on machines running the operating system. Discovered and described Tuesday by researchers at ...

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 ...

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 ...