full-disclosure - Re: Linux Local Root -- CVE-2012-0056 -- Detailed Write-up

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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:58:34 -0500
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Linux Local Root -- CVE-2012-0056 -- Detailed
	Write-up

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
> Never seen checksec. Cool.
Microsoft has a similar tool: BinScope
(https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11910).

Compiler and linker hardening is a security gate for projects under my
purview. You can go a long way with just following the basics.

Jeff

> As it turns out, Fedora seems to do a good job at compiling (all? not
> sure) their suid executables with -pie.
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 04:53, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com> wrote:
>> Good point about [lack of] compiler and linker hardening on the `su`
>> binary (and probably many others). Perhaps distributions should run
>> Checksec (http://www.trapkit.de/tools/checksec.html) on their
>> binaries.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
>>> Server presently DoS'd, or dreamhost is tweaking again.
>>>
>>> Cache link:
>>>
>>> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1009&bih=687&sclient=psy-ab&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.zx2c4.com%2F749&pbx=1&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.zx2c4.com%2F749&aq=f&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1077l2167l0l2282l7l4l0l0l0l0l148l403l2.2l4l0
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 19:19, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I did a detailed write-up on exploiting CVE-2012-0056 that some of
>>>> y'all might appreciate. Pretty fun bug to play with -- dup2ing all
>>>> over the place for the prize of getting to write arbitrary process
>>>> memory into su :-).
>>>>
>>>> The write up is available on my blog here: http://blog.zx2c4.com/749 . Enjoy.
>>>>
>>>> Jason

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