Kernel vulnerability
Denis Leroy
denis at poolshark.org
Sat Jul 15 11:09:56 UTC 2006
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Leon wrote:
>
>>Does this kind of vulnerability affect machines that only have sshd
>>enabled? I'm still using Kernel 2.6.16.20.
>
>
> It means that if anyone gets access to a non-root account on your system,
> they can have root very easily. This is not a good situation.
Is this the local root exploit that was used to compromise the Debian
development system ?
-denis
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