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On Fri, 1 May 2026 17:32:27 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:

> I personally would reserve a double-Rilly-Super-Duper level of
> badness for a remote code execution.

Fair.

> This is "just" another local privilege escalation attack.

It's a trivially easy escalation across many distributions.
Fortunately it's a trivially easy mitigation.

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