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Comment by masklinn

Just in from “C is fine just know what you’re doing”.

> Exploiting the bug does not require sudo permissions, merely that pwfeedback be enabled.

> the stack overflow may allow unprivileged users to escalate to the root account. Because the attacker has complete control of the data used to overflow the buffer, there is a high likelihood of exploitability.

parent masklinn 6 years ago

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