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Re: Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege elevation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pedro Venda)
Fri May 13 12:28:16 2005
From: Pedro Venda <pjvenda@arrakis.net.dhis.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:10:59 +0100
Cc: antoine <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>, security@isec.pl
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On Thursday 12 May 2005 02:46, antoine wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I failed to crash any of my test machines, x86_86 based systems get the
> same result as reported by Bruno Lustosa (segfaults), x86 system exit
> after printing ".. to crash" as do UML x86 systems. SELinux exits with:
> "[+] phase 2, <RET> to crash Killed" but interestingly do not cause any
> audit event.
I failed to crash any of my test machines too. my laptop, a test server and=
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two other workstations core dumped but no crashes.
pax+gesecurity boxes also report "[+] phase 2, <RET> to crash Killed", but=
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also no log entries show up about segmentation violations.
I assume that, if the tool doesn't generate the core dump, it isn't calling=
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the bugged kernel function, is that right?
regards,
pedro venda.
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Pedro Jo=E3o Lopes Venda
email: pjvenda < at > arrakis.dhis.org
http://arrakis.dhis.org
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