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 ...

A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually all versions of the Linux operating system is under active exploit, according to researchers who are advising users to install ...

The Linux kernel team has released a patch to fix a security bug that could allow an attacker to execute code with elevated privileges. The issue — tracked as CVE-2017-15265 — is a use-after-free ...

The Linux security team today patched a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel discovered by startup Perception Point. A patch for a critical Linux kernel flaw, present in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are security issues that allow users to gain more permissions and a higher level of access to systems or applications than their administrators intended. These ...

Keybase received two separate reports for security issues in its app for Linux and macOS that led to privilege escalation on the system. For each of them, the developer paid a bounty of $5,000. Both ...