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Re:PAM Vulnerability in Ubuntu allowing root access by rufugee on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:21PM (#1498024)
Anyone care to describe how this can be used to gain root? I'm running Lucid...it'd be interesting to try the hack on myself before updating...
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Re:PAM Vulnerability in Ubuntu allowing root access by Kototama on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:31PM (#1498062)
Just one tweet will do it ;-)

https://twitter.com/jonoberheide/status/18009527979

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Re:PAM Vulnerability in Ubuntu allowing root access by qjz on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:12PM (#1498229)
Works for me on Mint (a Ubuntu derivative). I'm glad I use Slackware on my production machines (no PAM).
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Re:PAM Vulnerability in Ubuntu allowing root access by someone_here on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:37PM (#1498085)
That's incredible.
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