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thats a really small number of servers actually.. i mean ppl get owned every day, every minute. theres a bunch of more easily exploitable local bugs that actually elevate your privileges.

this one bug DOES NOT elevate privs. you need a service that passes unsanitized env vars (unchecked user input) to bash with another user id than yours.




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