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A privilege escalation flaw in udev

A privilege escalation flaw in udev

Posted Apr 23, 2009 13:56 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: A privilege escalation flaw in udev by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr
Parent article: A privilege escalation flaw in udev

This looks like a reason why a /sys/block entry containing a device node for each device rather than just a textual representation of (major, minor) might be useful: but that was already rejected :/


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