Reply to post: Re: I've got a cunning plan my lord

Bad news: MySQL can dish out root access to cunning miscreants

TitterYeNot

Re: I've got a cunning plan my lord

"If I can get root access, I can overwrite a root-owned config file and upload an evil shared library, and with that I can get root access."

<Sighs> This root wouldn't happen to be a turnip would it, Baldrick?

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