On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
That is if the kernel is at (more than slight) risk of infection.
If you sit behind a firewalling router, don't run an httpd, an ftpd,
etc, how much at risk are you?
As Marc Wilson said, it "depends". A local root exploit (in the kernel
for example) combined with a remote exploit that does not itself grant
root access can equal a remote root exploit. Wham bam, r00ted system.
Rob
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