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This totally happened (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think there is kind of an assumption that the scenario is "outside host gains privileged access" so there's not really a security issue with some attacker deleting root on their own box.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago

If it has been done properly you're right. If this also affected the host machine it is a security issue.