ZDNET key takeaways Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux.Using the root account could lead to ...

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 ...

If Marvin the Martian makes it onto your computer and does privilege escalation to take it over, we might now know just how they did it. A new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability, dubbed ...

Open WSL Terminal. Navigate the root directory or top folder inside of the Terminal. Type in explorer.exe and hit Enter to open that location inside of the File Explorer. After you access these files ...

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 these ...

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 ...

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 as ...

Multiple Linux distributions including all current versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS contain a newly discovered bug that gives attackers a way to obtain full root access on vulnerable ...

A security researcher published today proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a vulnerability primarily impacting Ubuntu, but also other Linux distros. Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating ...

A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users. As reported by ZDNet, a ...

Apache HTTP web server users are being urged to update their servers to patch for a critical vulnerability that could give an attacker a way to gain root access. Researcher Charles Fol discovered the ...

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 even ...