Serious Security Flaw in Linux Found

[Raven]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&ncid=1093&e=3&u=/pcworld/20031202/tc_pcworld/113700

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

WHAT!?

LINUX ISN'T PERFECT!?!??!?!?!?!

[Kp]

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*

[Adron]

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.

[iago]

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.