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Linux OpenExchange - cleartext rootpw in swap Aug 31 2004 08:11AM
Rene (l0om excluded org) (1 replies)
Re: Linux OpenExchange - cleartext rootpw in swap Aug 31 2004 06:48PM
Rainer Duffner (rainer ultra-secure de) (2 replies)
Re: Linux OpenExchange - cleartext rootpw in swap Sep 03 2004 06:02AM
Joshua Goodall (joshua myinternet com au)
Re: Linux OpenExchange - cleartext rootpw in swap Sep 02 2004 05:24PM
Valdis Kletnieks vt edu
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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