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As Linux user who does kernel-mode development for a living, root escalation bugs come a dime a dozen. And, well, Linux runs everything but the average persons
by arghwhat 9y ago
As Linux user who does kernel-mode development for a living, root escalation bugs come a dime a dozen. And, well, Linux runs everything but the average persons laptop, so the impact, while different, is much greater.
So lets keep the snark to an appropriate level, shall we?
- igetspam 9y agoAre you arguing that privilege escalation is the equivalent to passwordless root login? I mean, I guess you squint just right you could say that a logged out user having zero privileges being able to login as a user with all privileges is an "escalation" but that's one hell of a stretch. We haven't even gotten to snark yet though. We can point to avenues for remote root all day but I don't recall any that are/were as simple as "just hit [enter] to get root" that impacts the shared attack surface that impacts all Linux systems. NOTE: I did not go and search NVD before writing this reply but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.