RE: Kernel exploit in brk() function.

"Stuart Harris - Chief Systems Engineer Intermedia" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Organization Intermedia Network Services Pte Ltd.
Message-ID <001a01c3bad9$7be34f70$a9fb0050@stuartpiii>
Guess it wasn't just grsec then ;)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of IvanK.
> Sent: 05 December 2003 02:39
> To: LFS Security Discussion List; Christophe Devine
> Subject: Re: Kernel exploit in brk() function.
> 
> 
> On a plain kernel straight out of kernel.org:
> 
> $ ./a.out
> [-] Unable to unmap stack: Invalid argument
> $
> 
> IvanK.
> 
> 
> On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:01 pm, Christophe Devine wrote:
> > Ian Molton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Seems this is how the debian servers got rooted last 
> week.  Fixed 
> > > > in 2.4.23.
> > >
> > > Impressive. fixed before release of a broken version, then 
> > > discovered ;-)
> >
> > The team that created the exploit just released the source, 
> which is 
> > an impressive piece of work, and actually works. I tested 
> it on Debian 
> > 3.0:
> >
> > bash-2.05a$ gcc -static hatorihanzo.c
> > bash-2.05a$ ./a.out
> > sh-2.05a# id
> > uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
> >
> > You can download the code at 
> > http://www.cr0.net:8040/misc/hatorihanzo.c
> 
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