This archive contains demo exploits for CVE-2022-0185. There are two versions here. The non-kctf version (fuse version) specifically targets Ubuntu with kernel version 5.11.0-44. It does not directly return a root shell, but makes /bin/bash suid, whi…
- 6 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 8:35pm -

Local privilege escalation exploit for a Linux kernel slab out-of-bounds write vulnerability. This exploit has been tested in an Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute with kernel 5.11.0.
- 7 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 8:32pm -

Local privilege escalation root exploit for Polkit's pkexec vulnerability as described in CVE-2021-4034 and known as PwnKit. Written in Go.
- 12 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 3:24pm -

Local privilege escalation root exploit for Polkit's pkexec vulnerability as described in CVE-2021-4034. Verified on Debian 10 and CentOS 7. Written in C.
- 12 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 3:20pm -

Qualys discovered a local privilege escalation (from any user to root) in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution.
- 12 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 3:11pm -

Ubuntu Security Notice 5193-2 - USN-5193-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in X.Org. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain…
- 12 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 3:09pm -

Backdoor.Win32.WinShell.50 malware suffers from a weak hardcoded password vulnerability.
- 12 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 3:08pm -

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-0268-03 - The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Issues addr…
- 12 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 3:08pm -

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-0274-03 - The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Issues addr…
- 12 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 3:08pm -

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-0273-02 - The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Issues addr…
- 12 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 3:07pm -

5 / 5 ( 4 votes ) Having SSL problems? One of the most common issues our team handles is related to websites not properly displaying over HTTPS, whether it be the website either not loading entirely, or just not showing the green padlock: If you’re…
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2.8 / 5 ( 40 votes ) If you’re on a cPanel server, you’ve probably noticed a sizable folder called ‘virtfs’ sitting in /home, which would appear at first to be using a ton of space. Your first inclination might be to delete it, but don’t! M…
- 14 Jan 19, 7:25pm -

4.2 / 5 ( 9 votes ) cPanel allows you to easily create custom Exim filters by simply dropping the rules in /usr/local/cpanel/etc/exim/sysfilter/options/ and running: /scripts/buildeximconf service exim restart Here are a couple useful examples of fi…
- 29 Aug 18, 6:08pm -

4 / 5 ( 26 votes ) If you have more than a few cPanel servers in your network, it may be a good idea to set up your own mirror to serve the files necessary to run cPanel updates. Doing this could save time and bandwidth, as well as prevent problems c…
- 17 Feb 16, 5:16pm -

4.9 / 5 ( 19 votes ) Update! cPanel supports LetsEncrypt, but you just need to install the plugin for it to work. To do this, run: /scripts/install_lets_encrypt_autossl_provider Once installed, Let’s Encrypt will appear in WHM’s Manage AutoSSL in…
- 15 Feb 16, 5:14pm -

3.7 / 5 ( 3 votes ) The cPanel update fails due to a problem installing RPMs, but is not specific about what the problem is: [20160203.180007] Testing if the newly downloaded RPMS can be installed without conflict [20160203.180007] Testing RPM transa…
- 3 Feb 16, 6:25pm -

3.5 / 5 ( 2 votes ) When attempting to create a user or restore a backup you may see this error: This system already has a database owner named___ To fix this, edit the following files on the system and remove entries for the user in question: /var/c…
- 28 Jan 16, 9:19pm -

5 / 5 ( 1 vote ) If your server is using a NAT setup and for some reason isn’t properly showing the correct public IP that should be mapped to the private IP on your server, you can easily fix this by creating a script to tell cPanel what the publi…
- 20 Dec 15, 12:27am -

4.5 / 5 ( 23 votes ) Note: This is an update from our 2011 post. If you’ve taken a peek at your PCI scan results lately, you may have noticed that your scan provider is now requiring OpenSSH 6.6 or higher due to CVE-2014-2532 – a version that…
- 26 Jun 15, 4:57pm -

4.3 / 5 ( 27 votes ) UPDATE 6/18: Shortly after this was posted and one of the major hosting companies I’m affiliated with removed BetterLinux from their servers due to stability problems, BetterLinux announced that they are shutting down, effectiv…
- 15 Jun 15, 1:02am -

My company is using mdbox storage format for dovecot. It all works well until we have to do some mail recovery from backups for single email. Currently we either do some hex reading to extract the mail, or convert whole user mailbox to maildir to get…
- 15 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 11:49am -

Hello! I need help! I install bind to Ubuntu-server 20.04. Configure it. named.conf.options forwarders { 8.8.8.8; }; named.conf.local zone “gamer.com” { type master; file “/etc/bind/db.gamer.com”; }; db.gamer.com ns IN A 193.10.10.9 dns1.game…
- 20 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 6:37am -

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- 1 day ago 26 Jan 22, 1:10am -

Hi, I inherited responsibility for our group's Centos7 servers and I'm having trouble installing software. My linux admin skills are entirely self taught... so not much knowledge for best practices here. I'm going through to set up urbackup but I'm r…
- 1 day ago 25 Jan 22, 10:12pm -

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- 1 day ago 25 Jan 22, 9:19pm -

The http://linuxupskillchallenge.org Linux commandline/sysadmin "challenge" course starts again soon on the first Monday of next month. Does require some commitment - but if gaining/growing these skills is important to you, then you now have no excus…
- 1 day ago 25 Jan 22, 8:30pm -

I am using automysqlbackup, but i am curious what other linux admins are using. submitted by /u/evolution800 [link] [comments]
- 2 days ago 25 Jan 22, 2:21pm -

I have a large server and id like to make many independent linux servers (virtual machines) out of it. What are the various options for doing this? The virtual machines will be servers so no graphical interface will be used on any of them. Docker is…
- 2 days ago 25 Jan 22, 12:43pm -

I recently setup a VM for some services and accidentally enabled full disk encryption, not realizing the computer doesn't boot without entering the encryption key (I assumed the root login would serve for the decryption). I'd ideally now like to remo…
- 2 days ago 25 Jan 22, 5:05am -

All-linux (well, a few unix flavors) shop here. We have 3 sites - one of them is "the office" and 2 are racks in colocation facilities. There are permanent IPsec tunnels between the office and the two sites. Both remote sites are standalone and by fi…
- 2 days ago 24 Jan 22, 8:42pm -

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- 10 May 17, 10:01am -

Well look at that LINUX Unplugged is now our longest running Linux show. It's about to hit episode 200 in just a few more weeks. We've been debating what to do with a subreddit that was created for LAS. Since the start of LUP this sub has also been c…
- 9 May 17, 7:18pm -

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- 9 May 17, 7:14pm -

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- 9 May 17, 2:41pm -

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- 9 May 17, 9:14am -

If we could get RSS feeds dedicated to audio intended segments and other feeds for video dedicated segments it would be very easy to get one going to our home media solution and the other to the phone. If not it will be nice if it says in the descrip…
- 9 May 17, 8:40am -

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- 9 May 17, 7:56am -

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- 9 May 17, 6:56am -

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- 9 May 17, 5:11am -

The open source community is working on many simultaneous challenges, not the least of which is addressing vulnerabilities in the core of our projects, securing the software supply chain, and protecting it from threat actors. At the same time, commun…
- 6 days ago 20 Jan 22, 4:00pm -

Open Source Summit continues to focus on covering the most critical topics, innovative technologies and pivotal open source projects as the premier event for the open source community. SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, 2022 —  The Linux Foundation, the n…
- 7 days ago 19 Jan 22, 7:34pm -

WASHINGTON (January 13, 2022) Today marks an important moment in the Linux Foundation’s history of engagement with public sector organizations. The White House convened an important cross-section of the Open Source developer and commercial ecosyste…
- 13 days ago 13 Jan 22, 9:34pm -

SAN FRANCISCO, January 13, 2022 – The Zephyr™ Project announces a major milestone today with Baumer joining as a Platinum member and Infineon Technologies, Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., Percepio and Silicon Labs joining as Silver members. The…
- 13 days ago 13 Jan 22, 5:58pm -

SPDX was designed for tools to produce and consume SBOM documents. A decade of experience has shown us that tools may interpret fields differently – a file may be a valid syntactic SPDX SBOM,  but different tools may fill in different values.  …
- 14 days ago 12 Jan 22, 10:45pm -

This is a classic article written by Jack Wallen from the Linux.com archives. For more great SysAdmin tips and techniques check out our free intro to Linux course. Quick question: How much space do you have left on your drives? A little or a lot? F…
- 19 days ago 7 Jan 22, 7:00pm -

This is a classic article written by Jack Wallen from the Linux.com archives. For more great SysAdmin tips and techniques check out our free intro to Linux course. Although there are already a lot of good security features built into Linux-based sy…
- 20 days ago 6 Jan 22, 7:00pm -

This is a classic article written by Jack Wallen from the Linux.com archives. For more great SysAdmin tips and techniques check out our free intro to Linux course. There are certain tasks that are done so often, users take for granted just how simp…
- 21 days ago 5 Jan 22, 7:00pm -

This is a classic article written by Jack Wallen from the Linux.com archives. For more great SysAdmin tips and techniques check out our free intro to Linux course. It goes without saying that every good Linux desktop environment offers the ability…
- 22 days ago 4 Jan 22, 7:00pm -

The last two years have demonstrated even more clearly that technology is the crucial fabric that weaves society and the economy together. From video conferencing to online shopping and delivery to remote collaboration tools for work, technology help…
- 22 days ago 4 Jan 22, 4:00pm -

Canonical is pushing the limits to automate the full lifecycle of feature engineering, training, and release workflows for machine learning models with its MLOps platform Charmed Kubeflow 1.4. The new free release enables data science teams to secure…
- 2 days ago 25 Jan 22, 1:10pm -

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered a vicious new threat that hides as legitimate systems software. With Linux kernel 5.12 you can update firmware, no reboot required. The last refinement in LibreOffice 7 series paves the way for a new set of feature…
- 5 days ago 21 Jan 22, 7:53pm -

KDE Neon 5.23 is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the latest KDE Plasma desktop and other KDE community software. With an edge over other KDE installations, the Neon project provides a rapidly evolving software repository with all the lat…
- 14 days ago 13 Jan 22, 1:00pm -

Last year closed out with solid developments in the open-source world. Expect that progress to continue as this new year moves forward. 2022 arrived on the heels of three key European rulings that lend support to the open-source concept. Meanwhile, L…
- 23 days ago 4 Jan 22, 1:21pm -

Study after study reveals that diversity among technology builders leads to better, more robust technologies. But the industry continues to struggle with increasing diversity. The open-source software community is no exception. Building and sustainin…
- 30 days ago 28 Dec 21, 1:10pm -

As 2021 comes to a close, here's a roundup of some of the latest developments in the world of Linux and open-source software. On the menu we have: Linux Foundation training courses; more Linux desktop features; new OS releases; and a fresh approach t…
- 36 days ago 22 Dec 21, 1:00pm -

Here are some of the latest developments in the world of open source software: A German state is switching 25,000 Windows PCs to Linux; updates to several Linux distros; The Linux Foundation creates the Quantum Intermediate Representation Alliance an…
- 52 days ago 6 Dec 21, 8:50am -

Open-source innovations and the Linux operating system continue to set complacency aside. Here's a roundup of the latest developments from the Linux Foundation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SoftMaker, and the Google Open Source Security Team. The post O…
- 71 days ago 17 Nov 21, 5:00am -

Today LinuxInsider introduces a bimonthly news column to summarize some of the Linux and open-source consumer and enterprise events scattered around the Linux Sphere. Look forward to an assortment of topics that will keep Linux users and open-source…
- 84 days ago 4 Nov 21, 5:00am -

Canonical has released Ubuntu 21.10, Impish Indri. The new version of its flagship OS has a heavy focus on cloud-native, AI/ML, and Ubuntu developers on Windows. This is not a major distro upgrade. Nonetheless, Ubuntu 21.10 does play catch up with th…
- 14 Oct 21, 6:05am -

CEO said multiple Chef customers affected; now Chef won't renew contract.
- 23 Sep 19, 6:59pm -

If you skipped the last release, Debian 10 (Buster) should encourage an update into 2019.
- 11 Sep 19, 11:40am -

For under $100, compact hardware can turn a shipped package into a Trojan horse for attacks.
- 13 Aug 19, 9:24pm -

Microsoft is making sure to take advantage of the Mac's hardware and design.
- 20 May 19, 10:40pm -

Development work appeared to grind to a halt last December.
- 15 May 19, 10:50pm -

You can ask "How tall is the tower in Paris?" and it knows what you're talking about.
- 15 May 19, 3:51pm -

The times, they are a-changin'—even bits of Windows will be open source.
- 10 May 19, 9:51pm -

The new Windows Subsystem for Linux will use a real Linux kernel.
- 6 May 19, 8:20pm -

New features will make Edge more than just a reskinned Chrome.
- 6 May 19, 4:27pm -

Visual Basic remains as unpopular as ever.
- 10 Apr 19, 7:44pm -

Nearly half a million Covid-related domains have been created over the last two years, many of them being used by online fraudsters. The pandemic has created an environment in which bad actors make use of a range of Covid-related "hooks" to commit c…
- 15 hours ago 26 Jan 22, 12:26pm -

The average salary for a tech worker reached US$104,566 in 2021, yet nearly half still feel they're underpaid. The hot recruiting market could be contributing to workers feeling underpaid, maintained Brittany Nisenzon, metro markets manager with Robe…
- 2 days ago 25 Jan 22, 12:17pm -

The automotive market is moving rapidly to make and sell autonomous vehicles, but studies suggest that two out of three drivers don't want them. Let's talk about what the industry is doing wrong with its positioning of autonomous electric cars. Then…
- 3 days ago 24 Jan 22, 12:00pm -

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian raised some eyebrows in the gaming world recently when he predicted that play-to-earn gaming would take over 90 percent of the gaming market in five years. Analysts we spoke with are skeptical of his forecast. The pos…
- 8 days ago 19 Jan 22, 12:37pm -

The biggest breach of the period was actually a combination of several cyber smash-and-grab operations over the years that contained 3.2 billion unique email and password combinations from Netflix, LinkedIn and other online outfits. The post Data Bre…
- 9 days ago 18 Jan 22, 12:00pm -

This decade is going to be known for both an unprecedented amount of change and a lot of companies and people suddenly discovering that the road they were on dead-ended. Let's talk about some of these upcoming disruptions. Then we'll close with the p…
- 10 days ago 17 Jan 22, 12:00pm -

Russian authorities on Friday reported that they shut down the REvil ransomware operations and arrested a dozen or more gang members. The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation said it quashed the REvil ransomware gang after U.S. authorit…
- 12 days ago 15 Jan 22, 12:15pm -

Bias in AI systems can result in significant losses to companies, according to a new survey by an enterprise AI company. Thirty-six percent of companies revealed they had suffered losses due to AI bias in one or several algorithms, noted a DataRobot…
- 15 days ago 12 Jan 22, 12:12pm -

Although Apple is expected to launch a mixed reality product sometime this year, don't expect it to lead its users into the metaverse, according to a prominent watcher of the company. Mark Gurman, who writes the Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, wro…
- 16 days ago 11 Jan 22, 12:11pm -

It was an amazing CES this year. Although it was unsafe for me to travel to the show, much of the event is streamed and I saw a number of sensational products. Let's cover those this week -- and we'll close with my product of the week, which appropri…
- 17 days ago 10 Jan 22, 12:00pm -