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Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack



> The focus of the article is "sudo access *only* to apt". When we talk
> about unrestricted sudo access it doesn't even make sense to talk about
> privilege escalation because unrestricted sudo is by design a privilege
> escalation.

Similarly, sudo access *only* to bash enables execution of loads of things.

Hand-installing a user-provided deb could do things like put suid root
binaries on the filesystem, too.


  Paul

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