If you haven’t recently updated the Sudo utility on your Linux box(es), you should do so now, to patch two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463) that have been disclosed on Monday. What is Sudo? Sudo is command-line utility in Unix-like operating systems that allows a low-privilege user to execute a command as another user, typically the root/administrator user. The utility effectively grants temporary elevated privileges without requiring the user to log in as root. … More →

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