[ale] CRITICAL LINUX FLAW OPENS THE DOOR TO FULL ROOT ACCESS (RHE)

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 17 May 2018 11:13:14 -0400
"Scott M. Jones via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> CRITICAL LINUX FLAW OPENS THE DOOR TO FULL ROOT ACCESS
           ^^^^^

Misleading headline. Redhat makes a mistake, and the headline blames all
of Linuxdom.

This threat is dangerous if you use Redhat, Fedora, CentOS and the
like, but the offending code doesn't exist in Linux or GNUtities, so if
you use Void, Devuan, Debian, Gentoo, Funtoo, etc, the bad code doesn't
exist on your machine.

Contrary to the headline, this is a **REDHAT** flaw.
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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