Comment 1N9 Local exploits

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Patch out for Dangerous Linux Kernel Vulnerability

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Local exploits (Score: 5, Interesting)

by alioth@pipedot.org on 2014-05-16 09:36 (#1N9)

Also don't think you can blow it off because it's "only a local exploit". All it takes is a (otherwise fairly harmless if the kernel bug was not there) vulnerability in something else that could give an attacker an avenue to get to a local exploit remotely. It happened to me a few years ago. Fortunately, when the attacker did hit my server (via a buggy PHP application), I had actually patched the kernel vulnerability they tried to exploit so they got nowhere (but left some evidence as to who they were).

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2014-05-19 20:35 Interesting +1 kerrany@pipedot.org
2014-05-16 12:21 Interesting +1 nightsky30@pipedot.org
2014-05-16 12:32 Interesting +1 rocks@pipedot.org
2014-05-16 16:46 Informative +1 songofthepogo@pipedot.org

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