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FYI there has not ever been a Linux kernel that lacks an exploit available to, at least, local users. There is every reason to believe that the current kernel
by shereadsthenews 8y ago
FYI there has not ever been a Linux kernel that lacks an exploit available to, at least, local users. There is every reason to believe that the current kernel contains at least one such flaw.
- solarkraft 8y agoAre you just claiming that vulnerabilities exist, including undiscovered ones, or that there have been discovered flaws for all versions?
- blattimwind 8y agoBoth, which seems not just reasonable, but very much probable to me.
- ungamed 8y agoThe next big vulnerability is not an if, but a when. And all software has flaws.. there is no exception to this rule.
- vermilingua 8y agoThis likely extends to NT, BSD, Darwin, and most other kernels. Kernels are tricky beasts. You could just say “not ever been a kernel that lacks...”
- userbinator 8y agoDOS. It has no privilege escalation exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges. Personally, I think as a regular user of a PC, it's the remote exploits that you really need to worry about, the ones of the form "connect to the Internet and get pwned without doing anything else", fortunately quite rare; and in this era of user-hostile devices, local privilege escalation can even be friendly in terms of rooting and jailbreaks.
- pdonis 8y ago> DOS. It has no privilege escalation exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges. No, DOS has no protection against exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges. Anyone with access to a DOS system is automatically root and can do anything. "No exploits" is not a good description of that state of affairs.
- pjmlp 8y agoIn fact, exactly because of that, DOS and all the other home system OSes had plenty of virus to choose from.
- babyloneleven 8y agoseL4