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General Security Information / Re: Short exploit investigation...

« on: June 14, 2005, 02:43:39 am »

What was your command-string that you used to run that through your decoder ?

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General Discussion / Re: My Dad's Computer

« on: June 10, 2005, 03:36:39 pm »

Did you make sure the voltage on the back of the power supply is set to the North American setting ? (you are presumably North American)

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General Discussion / Re: Linus Torvalds interview.

« on: June 09, 2005, 03:01:43 pm »

I don't want to sound like a dick or anything, but Linus talks about that in the interview ;P

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General Discussion / Linus Torvalds interview.

« on: June 09, 2005, 03:41:44 am »

Linux Magazine did an interview with Linus Torvalds back in January that they now released on their webpage for those of you that didn't pick up the issue.

http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/59/2201/

One interesting quote I noticed was this one:

The two will co-exist for a long time, though. I personally also feel that ppc64 is interesting, and that’s actually what I run on my personal desktop( it’s a dual G5 Apple box, although it obviously runs Linux, not OS X).

An Apple box!

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General Security Information / Local ROOT SHELL exploit for the Linux kernel 2.4 & 2.6 series

« on: June 05, 2005, 07:54:34 pm »

This one's old, but seeing as NOTHING has been posted here, I might as well make sure you're all informed. This one's dangerous.


Anyways, some guy from chroot.org modified a race condition exploit for the linux kernel to work on SMP kernels. This one works on 2.4 --> 2.4.29-pre3, 2.6 --> 2.6.10

http://www.x0r.ca/uselib24.c

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General Security Information / Local DOS exploit for the Linux kernel 2.6 series

« on: June 05, 2005, 06:00:39 pm »

Some guy named alert7 found an exploit in ioctl_by_bdev() for the 2.6 series:

http://www.x0r.ca/pktcdvd_dos.c

Apparently it works up to and including 2.6.12-rc4.