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Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by default in Ubuntu Linux since version 21.04, which were introduced over 10 years ago. The ...

A local privilege escalation security vulnerability could allow attackers to gain root access on Ubuntu systems by exploiting a double-free memory corruption bug in GNOME's AccountsService component.

A Linux AF_UNIX use-after-free can escape containers for host root; exploit code targets Ubuntu 26.04, which remains unpatched.

Built under the Trifecta Tech Foundation’s “Privilege Boundary” initiative, sudo‑rs is a from-scratch implementation of sudo and su created in Rust, a language celebrated for its compile-time ...

Public exploits for four patched Linux kernel flaws let local users gain root; three require unprivileged user namespaces.

Ubuntu administrators running containerized workloads have a new Linux kernel security problem to watch closely. Public ...