Re: KEYWORDS: shared objects, dynamic linking,

[Sebastian Jaenicke <tsa () jaenicke org>]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:13:23PM +0300, Aycan Irican wrote:
[..]
>       [aycan@mars doc]$ uname -a
>       Linux deadbeef 2.4.12 #13D SMP Wed Oct 17 11:54:46 CEST 2001 i586       unknown
>       [aycan@mars doc]$ ls -al /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock
>       -r-sr-xr-x   1 root     root      1406536 May  3 12:49 /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock
>
> I couldn't see any path when I looked at objdump output ...so I think I can
> export my LD_RUN_PATH variable to inject MY OWN libXpm.so.4 magically :)
>
> what I'm doing wrong here?
> is it possible to inject suspicious shared objects so suid program is
> compromised?
[..]

AFAIK the system doesn't honor your LD_LIBRARY_PATH with dynamically
linked suid/sgid-binaries. Otherwise, a compromise would be way too 
easy. ;-)

Sebastian

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Sebastian Jaenicke
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