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/bin/login gives root to group utmp
From: Paul Szabo <psz () maths usyd edu au>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:51:11 +1100
There is a group-utmp-to-root privilege escalation vulnerability in /bin/login in Debian, and I expect in all other Linux distros. For details and exploit please see http://bugs.debian.org/505271 Currently am not aware of any group utmp issues (that could be leveraged to get root). Cheers, Paul Szabo psz () maths usyd edu au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
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