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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - allows any unprivileged local user to gain root access on a vulnerable Linux system - no patch available (github.com)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Oh wow another overblown privilege escalation bug that REQUIRES pre-existing access to a machine in order to actually be used. If someone has enough access to my machines to execute this they already have likely pwned all the information they want without needing root at all..

[–] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 6 days ago

Desktop machines aren't really the target of these kinds of attacks.

Also I think the author in this case seems to have been pretty reasonable about what they did. If more of these issues were done this way I wouldn't have nearly as much irritation about "branded bugs."

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