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

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 ...

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 ...

A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system.

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.

This obnoxious Linux systemd bug has been fixed, which means if you're running most recent Linux distributions, you'll need to patch it now.

Microsoft has discovered flaws that could be combined to gain root privileges on Linux systems.

As mentioned previously, Linux continues to emulate a privileged root user. This is done by perverting the capabilities behavior of exec () and setuid (). Briefly, if your effective userid is 0 when ...

This doesn’t mean that Linux is perfectly secure though, as researchers recently found a major bug found in most major Linux distributions that allows anyone to run code as the root user.