Linux Co-developer Warns Of Serious Flaw
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Article Date: 2003-03-21
Malicious local user could gain full privileges by exploiting 'ptrace' hole. A developer who helped write the original Linux kernel is warning of a flaw in some versions of the operating system that could allow a malicious local user to gain root control of a Linux computer.
Linux expert Alan Cox, who worked with Linus Torvalds on building the open source operating system's original kernel, posted the warning about the 'ptrace' debugging tool on a Linux developers' mailing list here.
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