Local Privilege Escalation

Chris Evans from Google Security discovered an integer overflow in the Systrace kernel code. If an adversary can open “/dev/systrace”, the bug can be leveraged to gain root access. Both OpenBSD and NetBSD current have been patched. Please, update your systems.

Last updated on Oct 09, 2006 17:42 UTC
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