RFC: As I understand it this exploit requires local access and cannot be deployed remotely. Is this a correct analysis?
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right, but remote code execution comes in many different ways. Having a machine vulnerable to this kind of privilege escalation is a really bad thing.
Certainly. I don't discount that any exploit is 'really bad'. I like my OS of choice to be as free of exploits as it can possibly be. However, some of the material I was reading involved areas of Linux that I have little if any knowledge of value with, so I thought I'd as the question.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| AP | WiFi Access Point |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVR | Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| Unifi | Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
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