The sudo command is a very important command on Linux systems. You might say that it allows users to run privileged commands without logging in as root, and that is true. However, the more ...

Also: The best Linux distros for beginners With sudo in place, users no longer had to change to the root user or log in to that account to run administrative commands, such as installing software.

Linux administrators are urged to watch for and install patches to fix two major vulnerabilities in the operating system. Both discovered by researchers at Qualys, one is a stack exhaustion denial ...

Using these exploits, the researchers were able to obtain full root privileges on multiple Linux distributions, including Debian 10 (Sudo 1.8.27), Ubuntu 20.04 (Sudo 1.8.31), and Fedora 33 (Sudo 1 ...

Qualys said it has been able to independently verify the vulnerability, develop an exploit, and obtain full root privileges on default installations of Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and CentOS.

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 ...

A user with sudo privileges; How to create a sudo-able user on Ubuntu Server. First, we’ll demonstrate how this is done on Ubuntu Server. Here, you can take care of creating the user with only ...

Once executed, the user gains root privileges, as demonstrated by BleepingComputer below in Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS running the 5.13.0-27-generic kernel. Demonstration of the CVE-2022-0847 Dirty Pipe ...

PwnKit bug in Linux lets an unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on the system The 12-year-old flaw exists in the pkexec component of Polkit system utility ...

In March, the user Notselwyn published a proof-of-concept exploit that demonstrates the exploitation of the vulnerability to gain root privileges with a high degree of reliability.