RE: [Bulk] Re: Linux X86 fileutils-4x local root exploit

"Sharpe, Sam J" <sam.sharpe-AQ/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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. 
> 
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