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For Release 1-April-2012: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

For Release 1-April-2012: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Posted Mar 30, 2012 14:44 UTC (Fri) by hamjudo (subscriber, #363)
Parent article: Grinberg: Linux on an 8-bit micro?

Hypercalls to the emulator are not adequately restricted in Dmitry Grinberg's excellent ARM emulator. An unprivileged user or process can gain full root access.

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For Release 1-April-2012: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Posted Mar 30, 2012 18:33 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Thanks for the advance laughs! I was wondering if your comment was a (-n intended) joke until I pushed "reply" and read the subject.

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