From: Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 17:21:57 CEST
Vincent Danen wrote:
> >It is my understanding that this problem cannot be exploited with
> >a non-root user, and when already being root it won't pose more
> >problems to become root again.
>
> Could be. I'm not claiming to know the in's and out's of this one, so
> there may be something I've missed or we've both missed. I used the
> description of the problem that Steve provided and didn't do much
> beyond participating in the discussion of it and building/testing it.
> With all the other things going on at the moment, taking an in-depth
> look at it just wasn't feasible.
I understand. Thanks for the explanation.
Regards,
Joey
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