There's a kernel exploit in the wild [0]. I've run it on a couple of nodes and it __does__ allow a non-root user root access. Has any one tried it on a Hardware node or within a VE? Within a VE all I got was a kernel oops and it was too low-level for me to decypher... [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229
John Maclean wrote: > There's a kernel exploit in the wild [0]. I've run it on a couple of > nodes and it __does__ allow a non-root user root access. Has any one > tried it on a Hardware node or within a VE? Within a VE all I got was a > kernel oops and it was too low-level for me to decypher... > > [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 I tried it. On a VE it gives a segfault ./a.out ----------------------------------- Linux vmsplice Local Root Exploit By qaaz ----------------------------------- [+] mmap: 0x0 .. 0x1000 [+] page: 0x0 [+] page: 0x20 [+] mmap: 0x4000 .. 0x5000 [+] page: 0x4000 [+] page: 0x4020 [+] mmap: 0x1000 .. 0x2000 [+] page: 0x1000 [+] mmap: 0xb7e37000 .. 0xb7e69000 Segmentation fault If you go and have a look at the host theres an oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 The system becomes unstable after this.