A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 26, 2022 11:33 AM EDT
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Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running any major distribution of the open source operating system.

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