Re: Debian Development Machine "Gluck" Hacked -UPDATE

["Morning Wood" <se_cur_ity () hotmail com>]

> David Taylor wrote:
> Curious why Secunia is rating this as 'less critical'.  The way I see it,
> this exploit could be integrated into the other exploits for mambo, 
> joomla,
> phpbb, etc.  Also, all of us that have websites hosted on linux machines
> that have a vulnerable kernel could get root?
>
> I'm thinking 'highly critical'?

considering the widespread use of that kernel,
yes

and yes, viable user=>root exploit can be obtained from a web app vuln. ( 
hacking 101 here kids ) 

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