FreeBSD 7.0/7.1 (ktimer) Local Kernel Root Exploit

No description provided by source. / bsd-ktimer.c Copyright c 2008 by [email protected] [email protected] FreeBSD = 7.0 local kernel root exploit by christer/mu-b - Mon 2 June 2008 - Tested on: FreeBSD 7.0 FreeBSD 7.1 - Private Source Code -DO NOT DISTRIBUTE - http://www.bsdcitizen.org/ -...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-178-1)

Oleg Nesterov discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the timer handling. When a non group-leader thread called exec to execute a different program while an itimer was pending, the timer expiry would signal the old group leader task, which did not exist any more. This caused a kerne...