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

Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation vulnerability to patch. The latest, a memory-management flaw tracked as CVE-2026-46300 ...

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...

The bug allows users to bypass privilege restrictions to execute commands as root. A vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even ...

There's a lot of hubbub out there now about a security hole in the Unix/Linux family's sudo command. Sudo is the command, which enables normal users to run commands as if they were the root user, aka ...

A new Linux vulnerability known as 'Dirty Pipe' allows local users to gain root privileges through publicly available exploits. Today, security researcher Max Kellermann responsibly disclosed the ...