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Re: secure installation



Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:

> Just curious; anyone can forget a user account, but how did the
> attacker get root?

There are a *lot* more privilege escalation attacks than there are remote
exploits.  Just in the Linux kernel, a new one seems to show up every six
months or so.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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