RE: [Bulk] Re: Linux X86 fileutils-4x local root exploit
"Sharpe, Sam J" <sam.sharpe-AQ/[email protected]>
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I wouldn't run it if I were you. I'm not an exploit guru, but I just ran it as me on a play server (RHEL3) and ended up with a root shell prompt. Then the system hung... > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arjan van de Ven > Sent: 04 July 2006 13:21 > To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon); SDC Marketing > Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: Linux X86 fileutils-4x local root exploit > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 06:59 -0700, SDC Marketing wrote: > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-06/msg00099.html > > ok maybe it's me but there doesn't appear to be any actual > exploit there.. all that a program does is call "rm" with > it's own privileges... > well .. duh, anyone can do that anyway. > > > -- > Taroon-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list > -- Taroon-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list