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A flaw in the Linux kernel called pedit COW lets a regular, unprivileged user rewrite /bin/su in memory and become root, while the copy on disk never changes …
A 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD let attackers bypass its PPP login with nothing more than an empty username and an empty password. Hand a vulnerable system a …
ssh-keysign-pwn is a newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability that gives any unprivileged local user direct access to the SSH host private keys of a server …
A new Linux zero-day called Dirty Frag gives any local user full root access on every major Linux distribution, and right now no distribution has a patched …
Since 2017, every major Linux distribution has been shipping a flaw that hands root access to any local user. The exploit is a 732-byte Python script that uses …