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Exploit found in older Linux systems involving Xorg and su.

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There is an exploit that has been found in Linux that can overwrite the /etc/shadow file with a new password for root. But this requires the setuid root bit for Xorg and to be run from a text console that is not already running Xorg. So this will only work on an older Linux system. …

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