[648] in bugtraq
Re: Sol2.x Mouse EXPLOIT info - CORRECTION
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Klaus)
Tue Jan 17 04:32:43 1995
From: Christopher Klaus <cklaus@shadow.net>
To: neil@legless.demon.co.uk (Neil Woods)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 03:41:48 -0500 (EST)
Cc: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199501170039.AAA00484@legless.demon.co.uk> from "Neil Woods" at Jan 17, 95 00:39:01 am
>
> >
> > OK, Exploit details:
> >
> > 1) place pointer exactly in centre of screen
> > 2) start to spiral out ANTICLOCKWISE - this movement must be
> > smooth and finish in the top left corner
> > 3) as soon as you reach the top left corner, unplug the mouse within
> > 4 seconds.
> > 4) You should then be at the # prompt.
> >
> > Have Fun.
> >
>
> This will NOT work on Solaris 2.X boxes. The spiraling out should in
> fact be CLOCKWISE. An anticlockwise movement will give a shell running
> as user nobody, rather than as uid 0!
>
> Top left is however important, so that we have 0,0 stored in cred->uid
> and cred->gid. Due to the nature of the mouse driver, an anticlockwise
> movement would spiral the uid/gid pair to the largest uid available on
> the system, which under normal conditions would be user nobody.
I tried it both boths and neither are successful, what am I doing wrong?!@?!
(griN)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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