Giving users unlimited root access is dangerous. Fortunately, you can opt to implement the sudo tool, which will provide limited root access to trusted users. Read on as Jim McIntyre explains the ins ...

Qualys said the vuln gives any local user root access to systems running the most popular version of Sudo. A doozy of a bug that could allow any local user on most Linux or Unix systems to gain root ...

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 even ...

Nearly ubiquitous across Linux deployments, Open Source Sudo software allows a user to act as another user Version 1.9 enhancements drive centralized logging, auditing and command approval Python ...

A Sudo bug found in the Linux and BSD operating systems has now been found to also be present in macOS. The news was confirmed by two security researchers. The bug could allow an ordinary user to gain ...

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

A sudo bug that can grant an attacker root access has been discovered to affect macOS Big Sur (via ZDNet). The security vulnerability, identified last week as "CVE-2021-3156" by the Qualys Security ...

In Linux systems, including Debian 12, the sudo group grants users the ability to execute administrative commands. This provides them with the privileges to install, update, and delete software, ...

A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users. As reported by ZDNet, a ...

Sudo, the main command in Linux that allows users to run tasks, has been found to have a vulnerability that allows unauthorized users to execute commands as a root user. The vulnerability, known as ...