Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by IcyWindows on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:21PM (#50373813)

I think this is one area where Windows has an advantage.

ACLs, Appcontainers with capabilities, etc have been something in the OS for more than a decade.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by jasonjayr on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:22PM (#50373831)

There are a lot of LPE's in Windows too. Remember that it started out as a single user operating system, it took a long time to get software on board to not always running as admin.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by perching_aix on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:58PM (#50374124)

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by easton on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:47PM (#50374906)

Was NT ever single user? I thought they built it with network/multiuser in mind.

(I agree that maybe applications could’ve been built for 3.1/9x and expect a single user, but the os expects multiple).

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by viraptor on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:17PM (#50375112)

Linux has effectively same options and more via LSM. I'm not sure why ACL is mentioned here since it exists on Linux too. What advantage do you mean specifically?

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