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Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack



On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:25:06AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote:
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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.
Yet you are talking about "sudo access that is enabled by default".

Or are you saying sudo access to apt is enabled by default on most Debian
and Debian-based distributions?

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