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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:15:10 +0200
From: Elad Alfassa <elad@...oraproject.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: What is the "Grinch" polkit/wheel group issue?

This is not a vulnerability, this is expected behaviour.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This probably needs a CVE too, or does it have one?
>
> https://www.alertlogic.com/blog/dont-let-grinch-steal-christmas/
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2860032/this-linux-grinch-could-put-a-hole-in-your-security-stocking.html
>
> Although it seems that the user is in the "wheel" group for this to be
> exploitable
> and is hard to specify what actions should be safed by another query or
> which should not.
>
> Ciao, Marcus
>


-- 
-Elad Alfassa.

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