A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...
PinTheft, a recently patched Linux privilege escalation vulnerability, now has a publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) ...
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 pair of newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Fragnesia, allow a local attacker to corrupt the kernel’s page cache and escalate from an unprivileged account to full root ...
A missing check allows unprivileged attackers to escape containers and execute arbitrary commands in the kernel. To go along with the “Dirty Pipe” Linux security bug coming to light, two researchers ...
Researchers found an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in Snap, a universal application packaging and distribution system developed for Ubuntu but available on multiple Linux distributions. The flaw ...
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 ...