Security Vulnerabilities

Seven Year Old Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Found In Some Linux Distros, Patch Now

Linux system service bug lets you get root on most modern distros

Unprivileged attackers can get a root shell by exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in the polkit auth system service installed by default on many modern Linux distributions. This polkit local privilege escalation bug (tracked as CVE-2021-3560) was publicly disclosed, and a fix was released on June 3, 2021.

• Brittany Day
• 06/11/2021
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Google fixes sixth Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild this year

Google has released Chrome 91.0.4472.101 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, fixing 14 security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild (tracked as CVE-2021-30551). This marks the sixth Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild this year.

• Brittany Day
• 06/10/2021
• 632 Views