Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:28:36 +0100 | | Subject | Re: Kernels 2.2 and 2.4 exploit (ALL VERSION WHAT I HAVE TESTED UNTILL NOW!) | | From | Anders Gustafsson <> |
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:13:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 14:55, Anders Gustafsson wrote: > > If access can't be shut down while compiling the new kernel > > echo /foo/bar/doesnotexist >/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe > > > > would help, wouldn't it? > > Against the default exploit circulating yes, in the general > case we don't believe so.
Ah, there might be other stuff than modprobe that execs out of a kernelthread. But to exploit the kernelthread must execve so there is a userspaceprocess to ptrace, right?
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