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 ...

A newly disclosed vulnerability in a Linux program can be exploited for local privilege escalation — and ultimately to acquire root privileges, researchers at cybersecurity vendor Qualys said today.

A set of newly identified vulnerabilities in the Linux security module AppArmor could allow attackers to gain root access, bypass system protections and trigger service outages across millions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virtualization technology software firm VMware released patches to fix a severe security flaw in its VMware Tools suite of utilities. The company made the announcement in an advisory on Tuesday August ...

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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 ...

As Ars Technica reports, Linux kernel bug CVE-2016-5195 finally received an official patch this week. When successfully exploited, the vulnerability allows a hacker to escalate their privileges on the ...

A reported Free Download Manager supply chain attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian package repository that installed information-stealing malware. Kali Linux 2023.3, the third version ...