full-disclosure - Re: help: I need to crack my box (Lucio Crusca)

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:09:28 +0100
From: nigel <nigel@...dwick.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: help: I need to crack my box (Lucio Crusca)

> razi garbie wrote:
> 
>> Are you sure that a 0day is even needed? perhaps its a rather old
>> kernel thats locally exploitable?
>> shell# uname -r
> 2.6.24-1-686
> 
>> and then go google.
> tried looking for "2.6.24-1-686 exploit" and "2.6.24-1-686 poc" but I
> can't
> find anything. Is there any PoC repository where one can browse whatever
> has been released until today? If there is not, I think it's time to
> invent
> one, noobs like me would find it very useful.
> 

This isn't a n00b's list!

However, if its your box, boot from a live cd
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Reset_a_Lost_Root_Password

Nige

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