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WHAT!?
LINUX ISN'T PERFECT!?!??!?!?!?!
Quote from: St0rm.iD on December 02, 2003, 03:25 PM
WHAT!?
LINUX ISN'T PERFECT!?!??!?!?!?!
Nothing's perfect. It's worth noting though that the 1) there's already patches available for it and more importantly 2) it's a local-only compromise. You can only be hurt by people you trust, or by compromise of people you trust (and you really shouldn't be trusting people that can be readily compromised...) I can't recall the last time I heard about a remote-access privileged compromise for Linux, but I definitely can for Windows. *shrug*
Yeah, it's about time they find a bug that's actually in linux :)
This should be similar to one or another of the win2k debugging privileges or similar bugs that have caused kernel replacements.
Quote from: Kp on December 02, 2003, 05:05 PM
Quote from: St0rm.iD on December 02, 2003, 03:25 PM
WHAT!?
LINUX ISN'T PERFECT!?!??!?!?!?!
Nothing's perfect. It's worth noting though that the 1) there's already patches available for it and more importantly 2) it's a local-only compromise. You can only be hurt by people you trust, or by compromise of people you trust (and you really shouldn't be trusting people that can be readily compromised...) I can't recall the last time I heard about a remote-access privileged compromise for Linux, but I definitely can for Windows. *shrug*
Well, at school they don't trust every student but they give us all Linux accounts.