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CVE-2009-2692 kernel: uninit op in SOCKOPS_WRAP() leads to privesc

From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo () kernel sg>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:12:52 +0800

Marcus Meissner wrote:

Apparently new root exploit from Brad, see his twitter:
http://twitter.com/spendergrsec

The video is a bit sick in my opinion.

Disclosed apparently next week.


So, the cat is out of the bag. The exploit is available, but so is the
patch.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2692
http://git.kernel.org/linus/e694958388c50148389b0e9b9e9e8945cf0f1b98

Thanks, Eugene

Current thread:

new root exploit from Brad Marcus Meissner (Aug 13)
- CVE-2009-2692 kernel: uninit op in SOCKOPS_WRAP() leads to privesc Eugene Teo (Aug 13)
  - Re: CVE-2009-2692 kernel: uninit op in SOCKOPS_WRAP() leads to privesc Marcus Meissner (Aug 14)