Re:Electric Sheep on Ubuntu Linux 17.10
by spot on Friday November 10, 2017 @02:22PM
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sounds like you don't know how it works.
please check out the code and LMK if you find any real bugs.
it does not run downloaded code.
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I uninstalled Electric Sheep after http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-4581/
> This local exploit to the sheep client does not pose a significant
threat as electricsheep does not setuid(0).
> The vendor was notified on November 18, 2005. The vendor was extremely responsive and cooperative in regards to these security issues. All issues are fixed in the CVS HEAD of Electric Sheep client development and will be included in the next release.
that's not remote code execution and in a 12 year old version that was fixed right away.