> Debian hasn't fixed this in squeeze or wheezy yet, it's fixed in jessie because they have a recent enough version of sudo.
They haven't fixed it because they were never vulnerable: they don't allow you to change the clock without a password. > We do plan on backporting monolithic timer support, we just have not had time yet. Was a year and two releases not enough time? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219337 Title: Users can change the clock without authenticating, allowing them to locally exploit sudo. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinnamon-desktop/+bug/1219337/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
