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New Linux Flaws Enable Full Root Access via PAM and Udisks Across Major Distributions (thehackernews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Would implementing something like this prevent this problem?

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/securing-fedora-with-fido2-utrust-full-disk-luks-gui-login-and-sudo-authentication/154136

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That is a setup guide for hardware key and passkey auth. It is not a hardening guide, and does nothing to mitigate these LPE vulns.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Thank you. That's what I wanted to know.

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