Re: local root exploit

[Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > > I wonder if any existing user-land utilities have hooks into
> > > vmsplice that may be able to be accessed via PHP, Perl, or CGI?
> > It's a system call.
> Yes, but conceivable an application can make use of such a system
> call since it is exploitable from user land and hence the concern.

Well, the point is there's nothing wrong with the system call *inherently*.
There's just a flaw in its implementation which a carefully-crafted program
can exploit. A program which just happens to use the system call as it is
intended to be used isn't any more dangerous than any other code.

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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
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