Monday, March 13, 2006

You, too, can be a hacker

If you're using Ubuntu Breezy (5.10) and haven't upgraded packages since Sunday, do it as soon as you can. Digg reported the fix for a flaw that allows any user to read the root password from an installation log file found here: /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat

SOURCES: Digg and Digg

1 comment:

Will said...

See this post for some insight. And this for why Google may agree with you.

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