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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "\"Kitwor\"" <kitwor@kki.net.pl>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: old exploit works!!!
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:59:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001401c15105$544ea0d0$010411ac@local> (raw)

> Old exploit which works on kernels up to 2.2.18 (itr doesn't work on 2.2.19)
> works on 2.4.9!!
> I attach that exploit.
> [snip]
> if (check_execve(victim, filename))
> 	goto exit;
>
>  (void)waitpid(victim, NULL, WUNTRACED);
>  if (ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, victim, 0, 0)) {

It doesn't work, only the behaviour changed:
Linux now ignores the setuid bit if you try to ptrace a setuid app (idea from FreeBSD).
Up to 2.2.18 [and 2.4.0-pre?], it tried to return an error message if you try to ptrace a setuid app, and there was a race window
between the test (must be early, since it tries to return an error code) and the actual uid change. I haven't checked how it was
fixed in 2.2.19.

--
    Manfred




             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-09 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 20:59 Manfred Spraul [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-09 19:48 PROBLEM: old exploit works!!! Kitwor
2001-10-09 20:16 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-09 20:32   ` Fabbione
2001-10-09 20:52     ` Richard B. Johnson

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