Re: Kernel exploit in brk() function.

Christophe Devine <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Organization Linux From Scratch
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ricardo Barberis <[email protected]> wrote:

> However, in our servers we have a RH 7.2 with 2.4.18-27.7, a RH 7.3 with
> 2.4.20-18.7 and another with 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp which are NOT, and we
> have a RH with a vanilla 2.4.22 compiled by one of our guys and also is
> NOT vulnerable (I can keep posting about our servers if you want).
> Now a question, does RH's gcc-2.96 have anything to do about this?

Possibly, I think it must also depend on the version of binutils; I haven't
started investigating this problem yet. However you may still be vulnerable
even if the exploit doesn't seem to work. There's a poc code you can use to
be 100% sure at: http://packetstormsecurity.nl/filedesc/brk_poc.asm.html

Christophe

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