Re: xsoldier update for Linux Mandrake

[btellier () USA NET (Brock Tellier)]

This -display bug seems to have resurfaced again from the exploit I wrote and
posted to bugtraq for FreeBSD 3.3's xsoldier in late 1999.  More discussion,
patches, etc. can be found at
http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/bottom.html?vid=871

-Brock

"Cashdollar, Larry" <lwc () VAPID DHS ORG> wrote:
> > Great little shoot 'em up game in the style of galaga. Very neat
> > graphics, but there's no sound support yet.
>
> I actually wrote an exploit for this and posted it on VUL-DEV.  The
> exploit would get egid 12 (games) if I had bothered to put a setregid()
> call in the shellcode.  My attempts had failed.  It will however get euid
> 0 from a default source installation that placed xsoldier in
> /usr/local/games as setuid root.
>
> I didnt think it was interesting enough to post on bugtraq, but since this
> came up here is a link to the exploit if anyone wants to toy with it.
>
> http://vapid.dhs.org/xsol-x.c
>
>
> -- Larry

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