Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:09:10PM +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: >> > Beware: >> > >> > http://www.networkworld.com/article/3023447/security/linux-zero-day-affects-most-androids-millions-of-linux-pcs.html >> >> Just another local privilege escalation. May enable users to gain >> control of their own Android devices (imminent end of the world >> predicted!) and affect setups where untrusted users are able to execute >> arbitrary code as themselves. > > While rooting locked-down Androids is a good think, one shouldn't play down > the severity of local exploits.
In this particular case, an unprivileged local user could gain root access by running a program which does billions of syscalls as fast as it can for ca 30 minutes (according the 'real' article). And "affects most androids and millions of Linux PCs" is a way overdramatized headline for that. "Linux kernel bug fixed" would be more appropriate. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
