Linux-Kernel
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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 …

One extra character in the Linux kernel hands a normal user root. A single ! that does not belong inside nftables, the firewall built into Debian and Ubuntu by …

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 …