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privilege escalation vulnera | Re: RHEL Kernel vulnerable to the recent uselib()
privilege escalation vulnera 2005-01-11 - By Garrick Staples
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:02:38PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven alleged:
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:30 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:28:34PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 08:15 -0600, Lee Whatley, Contractor wrote:
> > > > I read in a discussion somewhere that the recent uselib() privilege
> > > > escalation kernel vulnerability doesn't affect RHEL v3 kernels.
> > >
> > > where did you hear that?
> >
> > A quick Google search came up with this link describing the
> > vulernability:
> > http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0021-uselib.txt
> >
>
> I know the vulnerability; was more wondering where the "does not affect
> RHEL" came from...
I think I've seen a few posts on kernerltrap or something to this effect. And
trying it myself, I've not been able to get the published exploit to work on
rhel3.
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Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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