In the same way as on a computer, memory protection prevents privilege escalation.

Privilege escalation means a user receives privileges they are not entitled to.

It is a specific type of privilege escalation.

Operating systems and users can use the following strategies to reduce the risk of privilege escalation:

This could result in a privilege escalation exploit.

So, no privilege escalation from a non-admin account is possible using this password setting capability.

The only way they can have some fun is to elevate privileges through exploiting a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Yeah, as long as your vendor has given you an update to the latest version to close the privilege escalation flaws.

The most common technique leverages security vulnerabilities to achieve surreptitious privilege escalation.

The compromised process would need a method of privilege escalation from low integrity to persist beyond the browser session."

The remaining eight are ranked important; six of these enable remote code execution, one allows privilege escalation, and the last can lead to information disclosure.

Right, because we should instead be using one of the many widely-used general-purpose operating systems that has never suffered a privilege escalation vulnerability.

(Allowing other users to, in effect, have access to your database leaves the way open for privilege escalation that you won't like.)

Extensive tests with contrived arguments to printf-style functions showed that use of this for privilege escalation was actually possible.

Privilege escalation vulnerabilities may permit malware running under a limited account to infect the entire system.

This frequently includes such things as gaining control of a computer system or allowing privilege escalation or a denial of service attack.

Privilege escalation occurs in two forms:

Using privilege escalation techniques, the root password in the passwd file could be edited, opening the box to further experimentation.

Exploit the frailty from the version Gingerbread (2.3) of operating system to use super-user permissions by privilege escalation.

Code injection techniques are popular in system hacking or cracking to gain information, Privilege escalation or unauthorized access to a system.

Horizontal privilege escalation occurs when an application allows the attacker to gain access to resources which normally would have been protected from an application or user.

TOCTTOU races can be used for privilege escalation, to get administrative access to a machine.

An arbitrary remote code execution with privilege escalation vulnerability in widely-deployed software is thus the worst vulnerability sub-type of them all.

Privilege escalation to Local System permissions by exploiting Shell Injection vulnerabilities in a service on Windows.

Obtaining this access is a result of direct attack on a system (i.e. exploiting a known vulnerability, password (either by cracking, privilege escalation, or social engineering).