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Re:“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is und... by INTPenis on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:09AM (#12759689)
>Your shell runs unconfined because your user role is unconfined. Any process you might start will therefore run unconfined, unless stated otherwise in a policy.

Just to clarify this, any process you start from the shell. Like the PoC exploit.

But in an actual scenario, if the exploit were launched from Firefox, or Nginx, it would run under a confined context and be prevented from overwriting most critical system files.

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