Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root

[Tom Buskey]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:

>
> My ubuntu 8.04 boxes are the same way, but there were comments about
> certain programs/packages/or-something (wine was mentioned) setting to 0 so
> they can do what the need to do.  I'm doubting many modern server installs
> are at risk, but it is easy enough to check.
>
>
Reading through the OpenBSD reference, it's used by Wine on Intel chips.

On Sparc, PPC, MIPS, etc they can use hardware to protect against it.  On
Intel, they could, but it would disable Wine.  The OpenBSD folks decided
they didn't care about Windows compatibility through Wine.
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