Re: Opinion on checking return value of setuid(getuid())?

On 1 October 2012 07:08, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not believe in the dreadful 'flood ping' security breach. Is a
> local escalation possible with non-dropped root ?

It is clearly a local escalation: a non-root user can do something
which was intended only for root. It is a different question how
serious the breach is.

-- 
Eitan Adler
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