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Re: [LUG] budget cuts

 

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Paul Sutton wrote:

On 21/10/10 18:38, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, tom brough wrote:

First lesson should be DON'T USE INHERENTLY INSECURE OPERATING SYSTEMS
(that is install gnu/linux).

Heh... or *sigh*

You know there's a current root exploit going in glibc, don't you?
Allows any ordinary user to get root access )-:

Well - maybe not on all platforms. It didn't work for me on Debian
Lenny, but I've not had time to try some others.

Is there, if there is I don't know how to get root other than by logging
in or using su sudo etc

Well, since it's in the open now:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/10/21/181234

and other places if you google..

Over the years there has been several root exploits in Linux - fortunately they get fixed pretty quickly on the whole - try googling for kernel 2.6.18 exploits for example...

Probably not as many exploits as other operating systems though...

Gordon


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