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Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driverPrivilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driverPosted Aug 1, 2012 15:20 UTC (Wed) by flammon (guest, #807)Parent article: Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver
That's one way to filter out the script kiddies lol.
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Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver Posted Aug 1, 2012 17:40 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
> That's one way to filter out the script kiddies
A rather ineffective one though. Current versions of GNU rm will only print this: > rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/' > rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver Posted Aug 1, 2012 20:53 UTC (Wed) by ken (subscriber, #625) [Link]
Really that is great.
having tried to compile a broadcom kernel that modified the makefile so it needed an ENV variable that I had not set and thus having a make clean resulting in a recursive clean of /. I do see the usefulness of having a extra check on /.
Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver Posted Aug 1, 2012 21:08 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
Don't compile as root.
Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver Posted Aug 2, 2012 18:22 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
And with Open Build Service, you also get free isolation, starting from chroots, up to xen and kvm isolated instances.
Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver Posted Aug 9, 2012 16:11 UTC (Thu) by philomath (guest, #84172) [Link]
Reminds me of:
>Q:
>I'm having problems with my Windows software. Will you help me?
>A:
>Yes. Go to a DOS prompt and type "format c:". Any problems you are experiencing will cease within a few minutes.
(esr in "How To Become A Hacker).
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