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Old 06-11-2012, 02:08 PM  
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Originally Posted by signupdamnit View Post
Thanks for sharing this. Here's a link about it I found for anyone who wants it:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...d-1614990.html

Am I correct in thinking that if one has their server configured to only accept local connections (like 127.0.0.1 for instance) then the hacker would have to first get a shell account or such on the system to be able to actually exploit this?
correct. I have this option enabled:

skip-networking

so the attacker would have to be local.
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