Linux Vulnerability; affects all major Linux distributions

[Rob2020]

PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

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[SpacemanSpiff]

Read about that this morning. That lil bugger has been around for 12+ years

 

[IAmATeaf]

That really is sloppy coding, the first thing you would normally do is check the validity of any variables being passed!