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> Any setuid-root binary readable by the user works.

Interesting detail. On Alpine, `/usr/bin/su` is not readable by any user, so the PoC doesn't work.

I suspect that the underlying issue can be exploited in other ways, but it makes me think that there's no reason for any suid binary to be world-readable.



Wouldn't executing it still put it in the page cache, just in a different place?




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