A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro
reader comments 41 with 35 posters participating, including story author Share this story 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 any major distribution of the open source operating system. Previously called PolicyKit, Polkit manages system-wide… Read More »