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Re: Linux OpenExchange - cleartext rootpw in swap
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:24:33 -0400
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:48:50 +0200, Rainer Duffner said:


It would be bad, if a non-priviledged user had access to the swap-partition.
On the two SLOXs I have access to, the swap-partition is only
group-readable by the "disk" group.


At which point, if you can get access to group "disk", you have probably 0wned
the box completely.  So there *is* a privilege escalation issue there.....

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