PinTheft, a recently patched Linux privilege escalation vulnerability, now has a publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) ...
Linux distros are rolling out patches for a new high-severity kernel privilege escalation vulnerability (known as Fragnasia ...
A pair of newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Fragnesia, allow a local attacker to corrupt the ...
Two new high-severity vulnerabilities, dubbed ’Dirty Frag’ when chained, have been found in the Linux kernel, affecting most ...
The issue impacts many large distros with GUI interfaces. A local privilege-escalation and file-overwrite vulnerability in X.Org X server opens the door to trivial compromise in Linux systems that use ...
A seven-year-old local privilege escalation bug has reared its head and finally got a fix. When it was available, exploiting the vulnerability in the polkit authentication service could have allowed ...
Two vulnerabilities in the way the Linux kernel handles the conversion of specific data types could allow a malicious user to turn a local, unprivileged user account into a superuser account with root ...
It seems that cybersecurity concerns are once again on the rise, as just this week, we reported on the surge in ransomware attacks. Now, researchers at Qualys have published a privilege escalation ...