“Since this is a privilege escalation attack, it can only be used by a user who already has a login, right? It is basically an internal threat from someone who is already valid on the server.”
It’s a moot point, it’s been fixed and the patch was available yesterday. Any linux user that pays any attention to his system security has already applied the patch.
I have a house full of linux boxes and they were patched as soon I got on my laptop yesterday morning.
‘I have a house full of linux boxes and they were patched as soon I got on my laptop yesterday morning.”
Oops, it was actually this morning that I applied the patches, sorry.