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 ...

Three vulnerabilities found in the iSCSI subsystem of the Linux kernel could allow local attackers with basic user privileges to gain root privileges on unpatched Linux systems. These security bugs ...

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 gain root privileges by exploiting a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in default configurations of the Linux Kernel's filesystem layer on vulnerable devices.

The dangerous Linux privilege escalation flaw dubbed Dirty Pipe that was recently disclosed could also impact applications and systems that use containerization through tools such as Docker, ...

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 ...

Linux is only as secure as you make it.

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

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 ...