Sudo is one of the most powerful and dangerous tools in the Unix or Linux system administrator's toolbox. With it, an ordinary user can run commands just as if he or she were the superuser or any ...

There's a lot of hubbub out there now about a security hole in the Unix/Linux family's sudo command. Sudo is the command, which enables normal users to run commands as if they were the root user, aka ...

Microsoft opened its arms to Linux during the Windows 10 era, inventing an entire virtualized subsystem to allow users and developers to access a real-deal Linux command line without leaving the ...

IT之家 7 月 2 日消息，科技媒体 borncity 昨日（7 月 1 日）发布博文，报道称 Linux 中的 sudo 命令存在严重漏洞，被攻击者利用，可以提前权限至 root 级别。 IT之家援引博文介绍，该漏洞追踪编号为 CVE-2025-32463，其根源在于系统不当处理 /etc/ nsswitch.conf 文件，可能 ...

OK, it looks like you need to employ some extra privilege. In general, you can’t write to a system log file with your user account. Let’s try that again with sudo. The response to the first of the ...

A vulnerability in the Linux sudo command has been discovered that could allow unprivileged users to execute commands as root. Thankfully, this vulnerability only works in non-standard configurations ...

The sudo command stands for “superuser do” and is one of the most important commands to know in Unix and Linux-based operating systems. (See the most important ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft continues to embrace Linux and make Windows a home for developers. Microsoft continues to embrace Linux ...

The sudoers file can provide detailed control over user privileges, but with very little effort, you can still get a lot of benefit from sudo. In this post, we’re going to look at some simple ways to ...

A high-severity vulnerability in sudo has been patched in a number of Linux distributions; the flaw allows local attackers to elevate privileges to root. Red Hat, Debian and other Linux distributions ...