As someone who has traveled the bug-riddled Linux road countless times, let me tell you that invoking root-level access for ...

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A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux sudo command that could allow unprivileged users to execute commands as root. Thankfully, this vulnerability only works in non-standard ...

Linux has an unfortunate discrepancy between the setcap command API and what it actually does. Although setcap expects the user to define a file effective set, the kernel simply knows about a “legacy ...

The root can do everything but login, and specific users get the privilege to do certain things. sudo XKCD #149 (CC by SA 2.5) In the Linux world, sudo is very common.

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A vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even if that root access has been specifically disallowed.