[mdlug] Linux root exploit

[Michael Corral]

2008-02-10, Monsieur Clinton V. Weiss a ecrit:
> I fully agree that this vulnerability is a big deal.  But the exploiter has
> to do a couple of things first:
>
> 1) Circumvent physical security measures and have local access to your
> machine, and be able to log in to the machine.
> 2) Circumvent network security measures and be able to log into your machine
> remotely.
>
> If #1 or #2 happens, then with or without this exploit you've got problems.

This is a *local* root exploit. I take it you didn't actually read the
link I gave. ;)

There *are* legitimate multi-user Linux machines out there, by the way.

Michael