Researchers disclose a 55-year-old vulnerability affecting macOS, Windows and Linux. Exploitation is trivial and requires no special tools. No patch exists.
I will say, in the world where you can’t do anything with “con:” or “prn:” or a few others in DOS, the fact that you CAN force Linux to let you completely and utterly fuck yourself if you truly want to… is great. lol
You can, if you create an empty file at
/etc/apt/break-my-systemfirst. It’s intentionally not mentioned to prevent another Linus situationWow, I thought you might be joking but this is real
https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1/files#diff-94ba980dc72616d5d15b341b827cb979343fcb0f20c4e0ab8910fa2e502e48e2R310
Because of course you can.
I will say, in the world where you can’t do anything with “con:” or “prn:” or a few others in DOS, the fact that you CAN force Linux to let you completely and utterly fuck yourself if you truly want to… is great. lol