Re: The GNU C library dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in setuid library search path

[Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de>]

Am Monday 18 October 2010 schrieb Tavis Ormandy:
> # Open a file descriptor to the target binary (note: some users are
> surprised # to learn exec can be used to manipulate the redirections of
> the current # shell if a command is not specified. This is what is
> happening below). 
> $ exec 3< /tmp/exploit/target

I tried to reproduce this on Gentoo and it fails at this point. It seems the 
reason is that suid-binaries are not world-readable on Gentoo (on Debian they 
are) - this seems to be a useful security measure.

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