Fwd: Re: LOCAL ROOT EXPLOIT - SUPPORT FULL-DISCLOSURE - LOCALROOTEXPLOIT

Andreas Pour pour at mieterra.com
Mon Jul 8 08:04:59 BST 2002


Adrian Schroeter wrote:

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> And it was a "setreuid" call in the past, which would be okay.

Sorry, it makes no difference, at least on Linux, where the man page
says, and tests confirm, that:

     Currently  seteuid(euid)  is  functionally  equivalent  to
     setreuid(-1, euid).

Also, checking back, it seems this problem is in place since inception
(pre-KDE 1.90), time to update the notices . . . .

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Ciao,

Dre




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