alt Hacker NewsYou don't need a kernel LPE to root a Linux developer machine.
Just alias sudo to sudo-but-also-keep-password-and-execute-a-payload in ~/.bashrc and wait up to 24 hours. Maybe also simulate some breakage by intercepting other commands and force the user to run 'sudo systemctl' or something sooner rather than later.
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right, a bigger issue is multitenant systems, which are common in academia (I manage several such systems for various experiments). Now, we generally trust the users to not be malicious, but most don't get sudo, because physicists tend to think they know what they're doing when they don't really (except for me, of course).
Something that concerns me more is I use things like gemini-cli or claude-cli via their own, non-sudo accounts with no ssh keys or anything on my laptop, but a LPE means they can find away around such restrictions if they feel like it (and they might).
Perhaps, but it makes a huge difference if you're running the vulnerable code in a container or as a different user.
this, this is something I don't understand there are a billion ways to gain root once you control the user that regulary uses sudo.
this is only scary for rootless containers as it skips an isolation layer, but we've started shipping distroless containers which are not vulnerable to this due to the fact that they lack priviledge escalation commands such as su or sudo.
never trust software to begin with, sandbox everything you can and don't run it on your machine to begin with if possible.