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A 12-year-old security vulnerability has been disclosed in a system utility called Polkit that grants attackers root privileges on Linux systems, even as a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has emerged in the wild merely hours...

What happens when argc is zero and a SUID program doesn’t care? Let’s find out! Linux vendors on Tuesday issued patches for a memory corruption vulnerability in a component called polkit that allows an unprivileged...

A serious memory corruption vulnerability in polkit (formerly PolicyKit) has finally been discovered after 12+ years. This program is found in essentially all modern Linux distributions.