Re: system is up 1 year

[Robert Brockway <rbrockway@opentrend.net>]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:

> That is if the kernel is at (more than slight) risk of infection.
>
> If you sit behind a firewalling router, don't run an httpd, an ftpd,
> etc, how much at risk are you?

As Marc Wilson said, it "depends".  A local root exploit (in the kernel 
for example) combined with a remote exploit that does not itself grant 
root access can equal a remote root exploit.  Wham bam, r00ted system.

Rob

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