full-disclosure - Linux kernel uselib() privilege elevation, corrected

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From: dragon at dragons.org.uk (Gaz Wilson)
Subject: Linux kernel uselib() privilege elevation,
	corrected

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Athanasius wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:56:32AM +0000, Marcy Darcy wrote:
> > I'm running a small server with the 2.6.10 kernel.
> >
> > The exploit doesen't seem to be working on this kernel. Is there a way
> > to make sure the sistem is vulnerable or not?
>
>   I couldn't get the exploit to work for 2.6.10 either.  First there's
> changing a struct in it to user_desc to make it compile, then it just
> SEGVs all the time here.

I get it compiled and running on 2.6.8, but it doesn't do anything, other
than hog all available CPU for about 10-15 minutes followed by:

[-] FAILED: try again (-f switch) and again (Cannot allocate memory)
Killed

The same thing happens with the -f switch, except the process gets stopped
(SIGSTOP) instead of killed after the alloted time.

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