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[News] X Vulnerability Patched, Susceptibility Only to Local Users

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31417

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| THE US DEPARTMENT of Homeland Security has flagged a critical
| vulnerability in Unix and Linux OSX operating systems.
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Yes, it's true, but just as in the recent (x)Ubuntu 5.x case, this was
*immediately* patched and could only ever be exploited only by a local user.
Compare that to Windows where Administrator password recovery is rather
trivial, given physical access to the machine. SuSE and even Palm O/S have
similar workarounds, so merely none makes the exception.

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