A vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) could allow a standard user to create accounts with increased privileges, giving a local attacker a path to run code with administrator permissions (root ...

Qualys researchers expose ‘CrackArmor’ flaws that allow unprivileged users to escalate privileges to root, break container ...

A local privilege escalation security vulnerability could allow attackers to gain root access on Ubuntu systems by exploiting a double-free memory corruption bug in GNOME's AccountsService component.

Two vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu implementation of a popular container-based file system allow attackers to execute code with root privileges on 40% of Ubuntu Linux cloud workloads, researchers have ...