full-disclosure - Re: help: I need to crack my box

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:29:49 +0200
From: "razi garbie" <r.garbie@...il.com>
To: "Alex Howells" <astinus@...too.org>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, Lucio Crusca <lucio@...web.org>
Subject: Re: help: I need to crack my box

Are you sure that a 0day is even needed? perhaps its a rather old
kernel thats locally exploitable?
shell# uname -r
and then go google.

2008/7/22 Alex Howells <astinus@...too.org>:
> 2008/7/21 Lucio Crusca <lucio@...web.org>:
>> Believe it or not, I have a linux box (mine, yes it's mine) I need to own...
>> the problem is that it phisically resides a few 100km from here and someone
>> else has changed the root password... I can still log in as luser and I
>> wonder if I have a chance to become root again. It's a more or less current
>> debian lenny i386 with gnome. Have you got anything for me?
>
> Probably not and I can't think anyone hiding a 0-day is going to
> release it for this. Sorry.
>
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