{"id":29360,"date":"2022-01-29T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T04:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=29360"},"modified":"2022-01-29T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T04:13:18","slug":"a-bug-lurking-for-12-years-gives-attackers-root-on-most-major-linux-distros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=29360","title":{"rendered":"A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2022\/01\/a-bug-lurking-for-12-years-gives-attackers-root-on-every-major-linux-distro\/\">A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LS5MlVLLJJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/LS5MlVLLJJ<\/a><br>sudo chmod 0755 \/usr\/bin\/pkexec<\/p>&mdash; Command Line Magic (@climagic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/climagic\/status\/1486352583400775680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-securite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29361,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29360\/revisions\/29361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}