bugtraq - Re: Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege elevation

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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:34:58 -0300
From: Bruno Lustosa <bruno.lists@...il.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege elevation


On 5/11/05, Paul Starzetz <ihaquer@...c.pl> wrote:
> since it became clear from the discussion in January about the uselib()
> vulnerability, that the Linux community prefers full, non-embargoed
> disclosure of kernel bugs, I release full details right now. However to
> follows at least some of the responsable disclosure rules, no exploit code will be
> released. Instead, only a proof-of-concept code is released to demonstrate
> the vulnerability.

Paul, I was unable to make it work on my amd64.
Running Gentoo on kernel 2.6.11.
This was the output:

[+] Compiling...elfcd1.c: In function `main':
elfcd1.c:48: warning: implicit declaration of function `strlen'
elfcd1.c:54: warning: implicit declaration of function `memset'
elfcd1.c:60: warning: implicit declaration of function `strcmp'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
warning: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file `/tmp/ccSCdKeo.o' is
incompatible with i386 output

[+] ./elfcd1 argv_start=0x7ffffffff451 argv_end=0x7ffffffff459  ESP: 0xfffff0e0
[+] phase 1
[+] AAAA argv_start=0x7fffffff6fea argv_end=0x7fffffff6fee  ESP: 0xffff6de0
[+] phase 2, <RET> to crash Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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