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The same 732-byte Python script roots every Linux distribution shipped since 2017 (copy.fail)
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woaw

also a good blog post about it https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Automated test suites became so good, many regular people can just use rolling release distros these days.

[–] stuner@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That may be true for personal computers, but the impact of this vulnerability is mainly on servers. And those typically run distros like Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL that didn't have a patch at that time.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

the impact of this vulnerability is mainly on servers

The impact is any Linux install without root access for its users.