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A nasty local kernel vulnerability

A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 26, 2013 19:20 UTC (Tue) by dpquigl (subscriber, #52852)
In reply to: A nasty local kernel vulnerability by PaXTeam
Parent article: A nasty local kernel vulnerability

So basically it was just made lame instead of detecting the addresses on its own. So if you took Brad's symbol location code from his released exploits and popped them into this you wouldn't need the kernel signatures as long as a system.map or kallsyms was detected.


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A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 26, 2013 21:53 UTC (Tue) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616) [Link]

exactly. try to convince him to update enlightenment that hasn't seen one in a while as this bug's like the perfect candidate :).

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