On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 01:09:56PM +0200, Denis Leroy wrote: > >>Does this kind of vulnerability affect machines that only have sshd > >>enabled? I'm still using Kernel 2.6.16.20. > >It means that if anyone gets access to a non-root account on your system, > >they can have root very easily. This is not a good situation. > Is this the local root exploit that was used to compromise the Debian > development system ? Yes. (Not the second one Dave mentions, but the first.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
