For Release 1-April-2012: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Posted Mar 30, 2012 14:44 UTC (Fri) by
hamjudo (subscriber, #363)
Parent article:
Grinberg: Linux on an 8-bit micro?
Hypercalls to the emulator are not adequately restricted in Dmitry Grinberg's excellent ARM emulator. An unprivileged user or process can gain full root access.
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