Valhalla Legends Forums Archive | General Discussion | Serious Security Flaw in Linux Found

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Raven
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&ncid=1093&e=3&u=/pcworld/20031202/tc_pcworld/113700
December 2, 2003, 8:30 PM
St0rm.iD
WHAT!?

LINUX ISN'T PERFECT!?!??!?!?!?!
December 2, 2003, 9:25 PM
Kp
[quote author=St0rm.iD link=board=2;threadid=4029;start=0#msg33254 date=1070400335]
WHAT!?

LINUX ISN'T PERFECT!?!??!?!?!?![/quote]

Nothing's perfect. It's worth noting though that the 1) there's already patches available for it and more importantly 2) it's a local-only compromise. You can only be hurt by people you trust, or by compromise of people you trust (and you really shouldn't be trusting people that can be readily compromised...) I can't recall the last time I heard about a remote-access privileged compromise for Linux, but I definitely can for Windows. *shrug*
December 2, 2003, 11:05 PM
Adron
Yeah, it's about time they find a bug that's actually in linux :)

This should be similar to one or another of the win2k debugging privileges or similar bugs that have caused kernel replacements.
December 2, 2003, 11:11 PM
iago
[quote author=Kp link=board=2;threadid=4029;start=0#msg33278 date=1070406342]
[quote author=St0rm.iD link=board=2;threadid=4029;start=0#msg33254 date=1070400335]
WHAT!?

LINUX ISN'T PERFECT!?!??!?!?!?![/quote]

Nothing's perfect. It's worth noting though that the 1) there's already patches available for it and more importantly 2) it's a local-only compromise. You can only be hurt by people you trust, or by compromise of people you trust (and you really shouldn't be trusting people that can be readily compromised...) I can't recall the last time I heard about a remote-access privileged compromise for Linux, but I definitely can for Windows. *shrug*
[/quote]

Well, at school they don't trust every student but they give us all Linux accounts.
December 2, 2003, 11:20 PM

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