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by tinus_hn 1318 days ago
Sudo is a security boundary, it has to be rock solid and an issue that doesn’t immediately look exploitable is still a big deal. Sudo runs under the control of the attacker, it’s playing with fire!
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Case in point: the whole speculative execution was only suspected to maybe be exploitable decades ago, and only now we have a bunch of PoCs
...which are still only useful under highly contrived conditions which require knowing so much about the target that it wouldn't be a practical concern.