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August 19th, 2009

Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability For ALL 2.4 & 2.6 Kernels

This is a serious bug, it effects all Kernel versions released since May 2001! That goes all the way back to the early 2.4 versions.
It’s also exploitable according to the report – This issue is easily exploitable for local privilege escalation. In order to exploit this, an attacker would create a mapping at address zero [...]

July 14th, 2006

Linux Kernel 2.6.x PRCTL Core Dump Handling – Local r00t Exploit ( BID 18874 / CVE-2006-2451 )

A working version of the exploit used to escalate priveleges to root in the recent Debian breakin, ah another root kernel exploit.
It’s to do with the way the kernel handles file persmissions (or lack of) on core dumps.
Linux kernel is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

A local attacker may gain elevated privileges by creating a [...]