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suid-binary vulnerabilities

suid-binary vulnerabilities

Posted Oct 28, 2010 19:44 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: suid-binary vulnerabilities by ccurtis
Parent article: Two glibc vulnerabilities

they are not fundamentally changing anything, they are just moving from a single suid bit to a array of individual capibilities. This still lets a user execute a program that will have more privilages than the user with whatever environment the user defines.


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suid-binary vulnerabilities

Posted Oct 29, 2010 11:00 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Still looks like a major improvement to me.

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