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Polkit pkexec Privilege Escalation: CVE-2021-4034 (PwnKit)

A 12-year-old memory corruption bug in Polkit's pkexec gave any unprivileged local user instant root access on virtually every major Linux distribution. Here's why it matters.

Jan 28, 20225 min read

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