Fwd: Re: LOCAL ROOT EXPLOIT - SUPPORT FULL-DISCLOSURE - LOCAL ROOT EXPLOIT
Adrian Schroeter
adrian at suse.de
Mon Jul 8 06:41:51 BST 2002
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> My first impression is that the affected code doesn't run with root privs at
> all, the only thing that could be exploited are the real-time privs IMO (I
> guess that allows for a local DOS)
Yes, root-permissions are dropped before the sig11 happened. It is not a
security problem, George said the same on IRC yesterday.
bye
adrian
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