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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Knoppix/KDE
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2003-04-14 19:36:06
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On Montag, 14. April 2003 21:17, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2003 21:14, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > The dir listing says 2003-02-07, which means without recent KDE
> > security fixes, right?
>
> It's a Knoppix CD.  All of them have the same root password.  It
> doesn't get less secure because of some Ghostscript bug.  ;-)

Oh, it does :)
This means arbitray code will be executed as root

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
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