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Re: passwords changed?



On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:19:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> I am just curious, that if my proftpd runs as user 'ftp', than the one 
> who uses this vulnerability could only run arbitrary code as user ftp, 
> or as root?

Only as ftp.  But there have been a number of locally exploitable kernel
vulnerabilities fairly recently, and an attacker could use one of these
to obtain root access once they had shell access as a non-root user.
Are you running a safe kernel?

noah

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