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Twelve-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability Discovered and Patched
Jan. 31, 2022, 12:18 p.m. | Bruce Schneier
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It’s a privilege escalation vulnerability:
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 most major distributions of the open source operating system.
Previously called PolicyKit, Polkit manages system-wide privileges in Unix-like OSes. It provides a mechanism for nonprivileged processes to safely interact with privileged processes. It also allows users to execute commands with high privileges by using a …
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