Bug 432319

Summary: Local root exploit
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Lassi Pölönen <lassi.polonen>
Component: kernelAssignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Description Lassi Pölönen 2008-02-11 09:31:34 UTC
Description of problem:
from Gentoo bugzilla:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209460

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
at least 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 and 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get the sourcecode for the proof-of-concept exploit
2. compile with gcc <source.c>
3. run the program
  
Actual results:
Granted a root shell

Expected results:
Should not grant root shell

Additional info:

enabling pam_wheel from /etc/pam.d/su prevents users not in wheel (or defined)
group getting root shell but instead may cause kernel panic

Comment 1 Lassi Pölönen 2008-02-11 15:10:20 UTC
Duplicate to #432251

Comment 2 Linda Wang 2008-03-06 18:55:21 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 432251 ***