Security researchers have identified two security flaws in Linux that let attackers gain access to password hashes by forcing programs to crash.

He added that, “Core dump helpers still inherit enough privilege to reveal the entire shadow store. A local low-privilege user can wait for any SUID process to crash, then race the handler and loot ...

Millions of Linux User Passwords At Risk. Linux users around the world should brace for password theft, according to new findings from Qualys. The company has unveiled two critical vulnerabilities ...

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Critical Linux Vulnerabilities Expose Password Hashes on Millions of Linux Systems Worldwide. Image courtesy of Google News. Two critical local information-disclosure vulnerabilities have been ...

Linux vulnerabilities CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598 let local attackers extract sensitive data via SUID core dumps. ... short for Set User ID, ... which is used to verify the validity of a user's ...

Millions of Linux users around the world are vulnerable to password theft due to two critical local information-disclosure vulnerabilities. The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) unearthed the ...