On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 06:26:41PM -0000, Angelo Rosiello wrote: > > I think you don't need other comments: > > /* > ** > ** Tested on rh 7.3 using XFree86 > ** xscreensaver vulnerability > ** AUTHORS: Angelo Rosiello (Guilecool) & deka > ** REQUIRES: X must be run! > ** EFFECTS: local root exploit! > ** Oddly enough, this does NOT work on my RedHat 7.3 installation. I have the default xscreensaver RPM installed (xscreensaver-3.33-4). When I run this, xscreensaver DOES dump core, however, xscreensaver is not suid root and so will not itself give a root exploit. Perhaps there is an expected interaction with the X server (which is running as root) but this is not clear from Angelo's message. Steven Leikeim Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Calgary
