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Unprivileged attackers can gain root privileges by exploiting a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in default configurations of the Linux Kernel's filesystem layer on vulnerable devices.

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...

A simple eight-character password can be cracked in only 37 seconds using brute force but it takes over a century to crack a 16-character one. Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of ...

Two local information-disclosure vulnerabilities have been identified in popular Linux crash-reporting tools, allowing attackers to access sensitive system data. The vulnerabilities, uncovered by the ...