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Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: OpenBSD

Or, of course, the build tool chain changes even though the source hasn't. Maybe a compiler has been made "more intelligent" and optimises that old code in a different way, even with absolutely no other change in the environment. Maybe it optimised away a clever coding trick because it thinks the result will always be NULL when in fact it's a vital bit of code. The source remains the same even if the binary might be different from last time you compiled it.

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