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		charcircuit 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Copy Fail SUID binaries once again assisted a local privilege escalation attack. This is a major problem that distros can't keep ignoring.

marshray 17 days ago [–]

There's a claim upthread that a straightforward variation works against /etc/passwd.

q3k 17 days ago | [–]

You can also just use this to patch libc and turn close() into close-but-also-give-me-a-root-shell().

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