[PLUG] Since I didn't see anyone post this and it affects us all

Michael C. Robinson michael at goose.robinson-west.com
Fri Aug 15 23:36:02 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 23:24, Russell Evans wrote:
> http://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README
> 
> Thank you
> Russell
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So a ptrace expoit, a thread process I guess.  How can an ordinary
user do a root task through a pthread?  Is this an overflow, 
permission elevation problem, or something else?

     --  Michael C. Robinson




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