Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2025-324...

CVE-2020-11964

In IQrouter through 3.3.1, the Lua function diagsetpassword in the web-panel allows remote attackers to change the root password arbitrarily. Note: The vendor claims that this vulnerability can only occur on a brand-new network that, after initiating the forced initial configuration which has a...

CVE-2020-11966

In IQrouter through 3.3.1, the Lua function resetpassword in the web-panel allows remote attackers to change the root password arbitrarily. Note: The vendor claims that this vulnerability can only occur on a brand-new network that, after initiating the forced initial configuration which has a...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-29482

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libheif 1.19.7 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the SAO Sample Adaptive Offset processing of libde265...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-26682

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in ASP.NET Core allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network. CVE-2025-26682 Note that...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-29480

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in gdal 3.10.2 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the OGRSpatialReference::Release function. NOTE: the...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1713

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - When setting up interrupt remapping for legacy PCI-X devices, including PCI-X bridges, a lookup of the upstream bridge is required. This lookup, itself involvin...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-0998

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 133.0.6943.98 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTM...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-8508

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.21.0 contains a vulnerability when handling replies with very large RRsets that it needs to perform name...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-7978

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Insufficient policy enforcement in Data Transfer in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-45667

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - stbimage is a single file MIT licensed library for processing images. If stbiloadgifmain in stbiloadgiffrommemory fails it returns a null pointer and may keep t...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-57658

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue in the sqltreehash1 component of openlink virtuoso-opensource v7.2.11 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service DoS via crafted SQL statements...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-5158

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.76 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform arbitrary read/write via a crafted HTML page...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-0435

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Inappropriate implementation in Navigation in Google Chrome on Android prior to 132.0.6834.83 allowed a remote attacker to perform UI spoofing via a crafted HTM...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-5831

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Chromiu...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-26519

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - musl libc 0.9.13 through 1.2.5 before 1.2.6 has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability when an attacker can trigger iconv conversion of untrusted EUC-KR text to...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-8906

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Incorrect security UI in Downloads in Google Chrome prior to 129.0.6668.58 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-53382

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Prism aka PrismJS through 1.29.0 allows DOM Clobbering with resultant XSS for untrusted input that contains HTML but does not directly contain JavaScript, becau...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-0239

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - When using Alt-Svc, ALPN did not properly validate certificates when the original server is redirecting to an insecure site. This vulnerability was fixed in...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-56707

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - octeontx2-pf: handle otx2mboxgetrsp errors in otx2dmacflt.c Add error pointer checks after calling otx2mboxgetrsp. CVE-2024-56707 Note that Nessus relies on the...