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Re: DNS CACHE POISONING? - Our Portal is redirecting to our first competition
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:59:21 -0500
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:57:39 +0800, Eduardo Tongson said:
kernel used is fully updated and root SSH login dismissed do you know a way of getting root without an unknown kernel bug?
The *vast* majority of "get r00t kwik" exploits do *not* involve exploiting kernel bugs, but involve exploiting daemon processes running as root or set-UID programs. So if you have CUPS running, they don't need a kernel exploit, they just need a CUPS exploit (and CUPS *has* had a few issues). Same for Sendmail, NTP, the X server, or any of the other things found on the average Unix/Linux install....
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- Re: DNS CACHE POISONING? - Our Portal is redirecting to our first competition Paul Schmehl (Jan 29)
- Re: DNS CACHE POISONING? - Our Portal is redirecting to our first competition Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 29)
- Re: DNS CACHE POISONING? - Our Portal is redirecting to our first competition Eduardo Tongson (Jan 30)
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- Re: DNS CACHE POISONING? - Our Portal is redirecting to our first competition Eduardo Tongson (Jan 31)
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