Re: 2.6.1-rc1 affected?

[Jesper Juhl]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Max Valdez wrote:

> At least it hangs a redhat 7.2 kernel
>
> I will test it further tomorrow, but it looks like a good proof to me
>
> Best regards
> Max
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:23, Bastiaan Spandaw wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 23:48, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > > On Jan-05 2004, Mon, 20:38 +0100
> > > GCS <gcs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > There _is_ an exploit:
> http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0013-mremap.txt
> > > > "Since no special privileges are required to use the mremap(2)
> system
> > > ...
> > >
> > > I will not believe the claim until I've seen the code.
> >
> > Not sure if this works or not.
> > According to a slashdot comment this is proof of concept code.
> >
> > http://linuxfromscratch.org/~devine/mremap_poc.c
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bastiaan
> >

On my box that program is a very effective 'instant reboot'.

The instant I ran it from a xterm my screen went black, the music I was
listening to from a CD stopped and the machine rebooted.
The running kernel was 2.6.1-rc1-mm1


- Jesper Juhl

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