Two new vulnerabilities affecting Linux were uncovered this week that could potentially be used by malicious hackers to gain root privileges. One vulnerability, which was reported on Tuesday by ...

A researcher has discovered a new vulnerability called "Dirty_Sock" in the REST API for Canonical's snapd daemon that can allow attackers to gain root access on Linux machines. To illustrate how ...

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

A new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability, dubbed Looney Tunables. that can bump basic users to root was discovered, affecting a plethora of Linux installations.

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 ...

Dirty Sock vulnerability lets attackers gain root access on Linux systems After Dirty COW caused headaches in 2016, now Linux sysadmins have to worry about Dirty Sock.

Qualys said the vuln gives any local user root access to systems running the most popular version of Sudo.

Sudo, the main command in Linux that allows users to run tasks, has been found to have a vulnerability that allows unauthorized users to execute commands as a root user. The vulnerability, known ...