Posted by Mark Koek on Sep 27

Thanks for your explanation. It is a very good discovery to be sure.

Yet I still think that a ‘remote root’ is something different – Google
gives me this for example:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=4061 which
is a way to directly become root from the internet through a vulnerable
piece of server software listening on a socket. Connect, exploit, root.

In your case, another hurdle has to be cleared first…