From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Exploit for the Kernel
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:07:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4105.1034993230@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:51:16 MST." <20021018.185116.128890469.davem@redhat.com>
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:51:16 -0700 (PDT),
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: "Breno" <breno_silva@bandnet.com.br>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:42:12 -0300
>
> http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/295855/2002-10-15/2002-10-21/1
>
>There is nothing concrete at all about said "exploit".
>
>It looks like just a clever way to divert the victim's
>attention from the real mechanism these guys are using
>to root peoples boxes.
Agreed.
>It is nearly impossible for a TCP frag handling exploit
>to allow a root shell and socket to that shell to be
>created. So I think the claims are total nonsense.
The last mail on that thread is interesting[*], fooling the victim into
running a vulnerable version of tcpdump by claiming a vulnerability in
TCP.
[*] http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/295855/2002-10-15/2002-10-21/2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-19 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-19 1:42 Exploit for the Kernel Breno
2002-10-19 1:51 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-19 2:07 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-10-19 2:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-19 6:39 ` Wolfgang Fritz
2002-10-19 8:48 ` Keith Owens
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