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Re:“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is und... by geofft on Thursday October 20, 2016 @05:08PM (#12756187)
Does this actually allow modifying the binary on disk, or just modifying the in-memory cached page? (i.e., is this a persistent attack that survives a reboot?)
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Re:“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is und... by startling on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:10PM (#12756625)
It's just the in-memory executable, as I understand it.
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