[wplug] Core Dump Vulnerability

Brandon Kuczenski brandon at 301south.net
Thu May 12 15:03:09 EDT 2005


Anybody on here hear of this:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/397966/2005-05-09/2005-05-15/0

"A locally exploitable flaw has been found in the Linux ELF binary format
loader's core dump  function  that  allows  local  users  to  gain  root
privileges and also execute arbitrary code at kernel privilege level."

Hmmm.

-Brandon



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