Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password
On certain Linux systems, an attacker could gain root access by entering a password longer than 256 bytes. The vulnerability, dubbed *sshole by Wakefield researcher Özgün Kültekin, who discovered it, can only be exploited in very specific conditions.
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