Hi All,
Thanks for your views.
It seems to be like very difficult to come for a conclusion :-)
Regards
Eashwar
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:08 PM, David N. Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> >
> > Didn't you know that 'rm' was vulnerable on Linux?!?!
> >
> > An attacker with escalated privileges can -- through clever use of
> > this misunderstood command with code so complicated, that this
> > enormous vulnerability went unnoticed for decades -- wreak havoc on
> > any Linux system connected to the iterwebs. The only plausible
> > mitigation of this egregious vulnerability is to uninstall the 'rm'
> > package or switch to a more secure OS.
> >
>
> I think the vulnerability is limited to versions that support the options
> -r and -f. ;-)
>
> -- David
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