Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical unpatched vulnerability affecting Pling-based free and open-source software (FOSS) marketplaces for Linux platform that could be potentially abused to stage supply-chain attacks and achieve remote c...
A seven-year-old Linux local privilege escalation bug has reared its head and finally gotten a fix. When it was available, exploiting the vulnerability in the polkit authentication service could have allowed attackers to get a root shell on several actively-used Linux distros including RHEL 8, Fedora 21 or later and Ubuntu 20.04. Patch now!
Unprivileged attackers can get a root shell by exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in the polkit auth system service installed by default on many modern Linux distributions. This polkit local privilege escalation bug (tracked as CVE-2021-3560) was publicly disclosed, and a fix was released on June 3, 2021.
Google has released Chrome 91.0.4472.101 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, fixing 14 security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild (tracked as CVE-2021-30551). This marks the sixth Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild this year.
