*remote* root? [was Re: rawhide report: 20080211 changes]

[Dave Airlie]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:10 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 2:49 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> 
> > Is this just being overly cautious, or is there something you know that we
> > should be even more worried about?
> 
> I suspect overly cautious/misinformed, because there is a possibility
> of there being some other vulnerability would allow remote code
> execution to be able to exploit this local exploit.
> 
> Not sure what the exact reason for having a panic attack is, though.
> 

Oops sorry about that, I think my brain was saying don't write remote,
don't write remote, don't write remote... it was also early in the
morning :)


I've fixed the spec files now...

Dave.