bugtraq - Re: Linux OpenExchange - cleartext rootpw in swap

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Message-ID: <200409021724.i82HOXhb005932@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:24:33 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@...ra-secure.de>
Cc: Rene <l0om@...luded.org>, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Linux OpenExchange - cleartext rootpw in swap

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:48:50 +0200, Rainer Duffner said:

> It would be bad, if a non-priviledged user had access to the swap-partition.
> On the two SLOXs I have access to, the swap-partition is only
> group-readable by the "disk" group.

At which point, if you can get access to group "disk", you have probably 0wned
the box completely.  So there *is* a privilege escalation issue there.....

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