[colug-432] New root exploit code for CentOS

[Travis Sidelinger]

The source code link seems to be down:
  http://xxxxsheep.org/~sd/warez/semtex.c

-Travis

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently saw this:
>
> https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=42827&forum=59
>
> Given a command prompt, download this exploit, compile it, run it... and
> you suddenly have root.  What is interesting about this is, as soon as you
> have root, you can disable SELinux.
>
> Apparently it can be mitigated using this kernel module:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-tpe
>
> I spun up a test VM and tested this - it works!  What would be interesting
> is doing some investigation to see if SELinux could prevent damage if this
> code was run from a malicious web app instead of the command prompt.
>
> Also, I wonder if this works on Scientific Linux and other RHEL
> derivatives, or RHEL itself?
>
> Cheers,
> -JK
>
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