Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...

A vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) could allow a standard user to create accounts with increased privileges, giving a local attacker a path to run code with administrator permissions (root ...

Ubuntu developers have fixed a series of vulnerabilities that made it easy for standard users to gain coveted root privileges. “This blog post is about an astonishingly straightforward way to escalate ...

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 as ...

A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication. Sudo is a Unix program ...

A new variant in the Dirty Frag family of Linux local privilege escalation flaws has surfaced, the third root-level Linux kernel bug disclosed in three weeks. According to new analysis from cloud ...

A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw nicknamed Fragnesia — tracked as CVE-2026-46300 — lets any unprivileged local user gain root on essentially every major Linux distribution shipped before May 13, ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has warned users to update their Linux systems following the discovery of a 9-year-old root access vulnerability.

New Linux admins need to know how to give and take sudo privileges from users. Jack Wallen shows you how on both Ubuntu- and Red Hat-based Linux distributions. Most users on your Linux machines might ...

A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users. For the technical details ...