full-disclosure - Re: Advisory: sudo 1.8 Format String Vulnerability

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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:56:51 +0100
From: Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez <roman@...labs.com>
To: FD <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Advisory: sudo 1.8 Format String Vulnerability

Folks at @vupen seems to have it exploited the hard way.

"We successfully exploited the recent Sudo local root / format string vuln
including full bypass of FORTIFY_SOURCE #GotRoot"

Src:
https://twitter.com/#!/VUPEN/status/165454997444767745

Cheers,
-Román

joernchen of Phenoelit escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On 01/31/2012 05:14 PM, Todd C. Miller wrote:
>> joernchen is correct, it is probably still possible to exploit with
>> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, though it is more difficult.  On systems with
>> ASLR and a non-executable stack it should be even harder.
> 
> nasty thing is: it's a local exploit so you got nearly unlimited tries
> for free =). It will just be noisy in dmesg due to all the segfaults
> while brute forcing the right values.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> joernchen

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