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Comment by CodesInChaos

3 months ago

I'm a bit confused by the privilege escalation part. Doesn't modifying the settings require the same privileges the application has?

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SkiFire13  3 months ago

I suppose the application runs as root (to update the application files) but reads the user settings (which are writable without root priviledges)

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