Despite appearing rather complex at first glance, the Linux terminal is a nifty tool for most tasks, be it installing new packages or troubleshooting the most obscure errors. That said, enabling root ...

Unprivileged attackers can gain root privileges by exploiting a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in default configurations of the Linux Kernel's filesystem layer on vulnerable devices.

Learn how to add, delete, and grant sudo privileges to users in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.

Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges flaw to ...

There is a critical security flaw in the Linux tool "sudo" and makes unprivileged users "root", the system administrator, in no time at all. The reason for the malaise: a bug in the chroot function of ...

A local-privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects all current versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, even in their default/minimal installations. It would allow an ...