[vox-tech] [OT] Now I have a virus. Argh!!!!!

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ken Bloom (kabloom at ucdavis.edu):

> I imagine the caveat to that last statement is that if one of these
> ELF infectors were able to take advantage of a privelage elevation
> attack, then they could infect any binary - although those kinds of
> attacks are few and far between, and they are patched quickly.

If one of those ELF infectors is in a _position_ to take advantage of
privilege escalation, then you have much, much, much, much bigger worries.

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