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 ...

A high-severity cache invalidation bug in the Linux kernel has been uncovered, which could allow an attacker to gain root privileges on the targeted system.

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 ...

Qualys said the vuln gives any local user root access to systems running the most popular version of Sudo.

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 ...

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 ...

Dirty Sock vulnerability lets attackers gain root access on Linux systems After Dirty COW caused headaches in 2016, now Linux sysadmins have to worry about Dirty Sock.

In December 2016, the Linux team patched CVE-2016-8655, a security issue that was introduced in August 2011, and which also granted attackers root access.