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Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

From Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io>
Newsgroups linux.debian.devel
Subject Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack
Date 2021-08-12 08:30 +0200
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On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 11:19 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:12:37AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote:
> > Would you agree that there is an issue with sudo access that is
> > enabled
> > by default on most Debian and Debian-based distributions? The bug
> > may
> > not be in apt, but it definitely lives somewhere.
> Do you think "sudo access" itself is a "privilege escalation attack"?

I do not. I think that the possibility of dangerously configured sudo
access is a vulnerability.
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Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2021-08-12 05:40 +0200
  Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-08-12 06:00 +0200
    Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 07:50 +0200
      Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-08-12 08:20 +0200
        Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 08:30 +0200
          Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 15:00 +0200
  Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 07:40 +0200
    Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 08:40 +0200
      Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 08:40 +0200
        Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 09:00 +0200
      Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> - 2021-08-12 10:40 +0200
        Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 11:20 +0200
      Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 11:20 +0200
      Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> - 2021-08-12 13:50 +0200
      Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Kyle Edwards <kyle.edwards@kitware.com> - 2021-08-12 14:40 +0200
        Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 14:50 +0200
  Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2021-08-12 07:40 +0200
    Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 08:20 +0200
      Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-08-12 08:30 +0200
        Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 08:40 +0200
        Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-12 12:30 +0200
          Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 13:50 +0200
            Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2021-08-12 18:00 +0200
              Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 20:10 +0200
                Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 21:10 +0200
    Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-08-12 08:20 +0200
      Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2021-08-12 15:20 +0200
        Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2021-08-12 18:10 +0200
        Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-08-16 16:50 +0200

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