Bug in IO bitmap handling? Probably exploitable (2.6.5)

Hello. The attached is the small program that tries to write 0x20 to port 0x20. Normally this should cause SIGSEGV, so the program should crash. I think there is a bug in the 2.6 kernels though, which makes it to not crash if some trivial conditions are met. Basically it seems that if any process...

Linux Kernel ""do_mremap"" Local Proof of Concept II

No description provided by source. / Proof of concept code for testing domremap Linux kernel bug. It is based on the code by Christophe Devine and Julien Tinnes posted on Bugtraq mailing list on 5 Jan 2004 but it's safer since it avoids any kernel data corruption. The following test was done...

Linux kernel signed/unsigned conversion bug

Signed/unsigned conversion bug during processing of NFSv3 XDR data leads to buffer overflow...

CVE-2002-0499

The CVE relates to the Linux kernel vulnerability where the d_path function truncates long pathnames without error in Linux kernel versions 2.2.20 and earlier, and 2.4.18 and earlier. This behavior can cause local users to cause programs to operate on incorrect directories, potentially enabling i...

Sendmail Workaround for Linux Capabilities Bug

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- SENDMAIL SECURITY TEAM ADVISORY Sendmail Workaround for Linux Capabilities Bug The Sendmail Consortium and Sendmail, Inc. has been informed of a serious problem in the Linux kernel that can be used to get root access. This is not a sendmail security problem,...

linux-2.2.0-DoS.txt

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:14:29 -0500 From: //Stany To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY fwd Later on down the thread there are other people then Dan Burcaw who say that the bug crashes their boxes too. I suggest reading the thread on Linux Kernel archives for more information. Se...

macos.x.server.cgi.txt

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:35:58 +0200 From: Juergen Schmidt To: [email protected] Subject: MacOS X system panic with CGI Hello all, when doing performance tests with different web servers, I found, that MacOS X Server running apache crashed under medium load, when I was calling CGI-scripts. It...