Comment 24 for bug 807893

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Stefan Hajnoczi (stefanha) wrote : Re: [Bug 807893] Re: qemu privilege escalation

Mike, the issue is solved for Linux hosts with a modern glibc. Andrew
explained that uclibc or non-Linux hosts may still be affected if they do
not apply set*id() to all threads in the process.

The safe way to solve this universally is to perform -runas before creating
threads.