Re:Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords
by TheBrokenRail on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:26PM
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> sudo make install
Even ignoring security issues, all of make getting elevated privileges can cause other issues as well.
All it takes is the incremental build system being a little finicky, and "sudo make install" could rebuild an object as root, and now one or more of your ".o" files are owned by root and your build directory is broken.
Even ignoring security issues, all of make getting elevated privileges can cause other issues as well.
All it takes is the incremental build system being a little finicky, and "sudo make install" could rebuild an object as root, and now one or more of your ".o" files are owned by root and your build directory is broken.