On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:54:39PM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > > As I understand it, to exploit the vulnerability someone needs to have > physical access to the machine (it can't be exploited over the net? Is > that right?). If they have access to the machine they could get root > access by booting a live cd. It's not something I'm losing sleep over. > No doubt it will be fixed in the next version of glibc. > I think anyone with a shell account can run the exploit. Of course, most of us here don't have remote users.
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