GitHub security researcher Kevin Backhouse has recently discovered a seven-year-old critical Linux privilege escalation bug in the polkit system service, which was previously called PoilcyKit, which could allow any hackers to bypass authorization to gain root access on the affected system. If you don’t know the work of polkit, then let me justify it in short; it’s a toolkit, and if an application needs root privileges for a task, then polkit asks for the appropriate or relevant password.

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