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Here is the difference between Microsoft and the Linux community. M$ takes weeks/months to fix a critical bug...Linux less than one day!
Yes, this was a critical bug...and that means: Fix it now!
Ubuntu Linux fixes critical bug...quickly!
Seeded on Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:51 AM EST
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Just to summarize, since the above really doesn't do the article justice...
It looks like the Ubuntu Linux 5.10 installer saves a copy of the installation log as world readable. Unfortunatly, this log contains the password for the first user account created, a user which normally has full sudo priviledges and therefore can execute commands as root.
A patch exists to correct this issue, and earlier versions of the Ubuntu installer are not affected.
Also, as a side note to the article seeder, I don't mean to nitpick but it would be nice if this article was tagged under 'ubuntu'.
#1 - Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:36 AM ESTJust an excuse for me to do a sudo apt-get upgrade (I love that command!).
#2 - Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:12 AM ESTYou're in Easy Mode. If you prefer, you can use XHTML Mode instead. |
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