Re: interesting

In article <[email protected]>, Fagood wrote:

> You may find this interesting, and a good test for security...

I'd rather say, a test for gullibility. This so called exploit does not
provide root privileges, as /tmp/own.c contains:

int getuid() { return 0; }
int geteuid() { return 0; }
int getgid() { return 0; }
int getegid() { return 0; }

so that the user is tricked into thinking he's root, whereas actually
he's not. In the meanwhile, the code attempts to bring the system down
by forking and allocating memory repeatedly.

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