Quotes of the week

And please also don't top-post. Being the antisocial egomaniacs we are, people on lkml prefer to dissect the messages we're replying to, insert insulting comments right where they would be most effective and remove the passages which can't yield effective insults.

You've done it. After hours of gdb and caffeine, you've finally got a shell on your target's server. Maybe next time they will think twice about running MyFirstCompSciProjectFTPD on a production machine. As you take another sip of Mountain Dew and pick some of the cheetos out of your beard, you begin to plan your next move - it's time to tackle the kernel.

What should be your goal? Privilege escalation? That's impossible, there's no such thing as a privilege escalation vulnerability on Linux. Denial of service? What are you, some kind of script kiddie? No, the answer is obvious. You must read the uninitialized bytes of the kernel stack, since these bytes contain all the secrets of the universe and the meaning of life.