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privilege escalation to root in udev

All releases of udev older than 141 (and newer than 057, so sarge systems are not vulnerable) allow a local user to instantly get root privileges (CVE-2009-1185).

I am not aware of a publically available exploit. Workaround: kill udevd(8).

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