Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-26 Thread Martti Kühne
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:14:52PM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Sorry, if I misquoted before, I did not *discover*, rather I stumbled > upon on the internet. I realized my flaw, but later I thought the > issue is too widespread for me to be misunderstood. So maybe, you'd be > better off contac

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:41:10AM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user >> to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. >> The patch has been app

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-25 Thread Martti Kühne
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:41:10AM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Hi, > > I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user > to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. > The patch has been apparently fixed in the kernel as of now (according > to the bl

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Ohk, its just that I did not find any notice on the frontpage, > public-dev or general mailing list etc. So, I just posted. Thanks for > the information. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134219 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-01-24 10:41:10 +0530] Jayesh Badwaik: >> I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user >> to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. >> The patch has been apparently fixed in the kernel

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-23 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-01-24 10:41:10 +0530] Jayesh Badwaik: > I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user > to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. > The patch has been apparently fixed in the kernel as of now (according > to the blog post), but that update has

[arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. The patch has been apparently fixed in the kernel as of now (according to the blog post), but that update has not yet come into archlinux. And while, the /b