The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkitâs pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution. This easily exploited vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable host by exploiting this vulnerability in its default configuration. About Polkit pkexec for Linux Polkit (former
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