A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros Posted on 2022/01/29 by Carl Robitaille A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros A critical and trivial to exploit vulnerability has been revealed in a tool called polkit (pkexec) that you likely have installed if you run Linux. The current mitigation requires manual intervention. https://t.co/LS5MlVLLJJsudo chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec— Command Line Magic (@climagic) January 26, 2022