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It's one thing to exploit something locally. It's another to exploit it remotely. And if you have local access to a machine I'm sure there are much easier ways
by workthrowaway27 9y ago
It's one thing to exploit something locally. It's another to exploit it remotely. And if you have local access to a machine I'm sure there are much easier ways to get root access to it.
- matt4077 9y agoBefore being patched, this exploit would have worked at any of the cloud providers: Google Compute Engine, AWS, etc. You could have run it on thousands of virtual machines and sifted through all the data of other VMs running on the same hardware. Oh, and it works (/worked) on browsers.