IntroductionWith the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.I’ll let the results speak for themselves:1rory@ubuntu2404release:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release 2DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu 3DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04 4DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble 5DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04 LTS" 6rory@ubuntu2404release:~$ id 7uid=1000(rory) gid=1000(rory)...