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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by comex on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:25AM (#16068775)
Sure, SSH keys would probably work on a system with SSH enabled; I just wouldn't count that as "directly". (That would include most servers but exclude most Android devices; I have no idea whether there are other escalation methods for Android.)
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by user5994461 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:26PM (#16076527)
Direct or indirect is meaningless at this point. The exploit is proven, they just have to determine the "best" memory locations to read to make something "useful" out of it. Then it's bundled together as an exploit kit and it's Armageddon.
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