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Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one.

From Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one.
Date 2016-10-21 22:54 +0000
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On 2016-10-21, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
> On 2016-10-21 4:16 PM, Jim Polaski wrote:
>> On 2016-10-21, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-21 11:56 AM, Jim Polaski wrote:
>>>> On 2016-10-21, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
>>>>> On 2016-10-21 10:25 AM, Jim Polaski wrote:
>>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/most-serious-linux-privilege-escalation-bug-ever-is-under-active-exploit/#p3
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users 
>>>>>> unfettered root access."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The in-the-wild attacks exploiting this specific vulnerability were 
>>>>>> found by Linux developer Phil Oester, according to an informational site 
>>>>>> dedicated to the vulnerability. It says Oester found the exploit using 
>>>>>> an HTTP packet capture, but the site doesn't elaborate. Update: In 
>>>>>> e-mails received about nine hours after this post went live, Oester 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Any user can become root in < 5 seconds in my testing, very 
>>>>>> reliably. Scary stuff.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     The vulnerability is easiest exploited with local access to a system 
>>>>>> such as shell accounts. Less trivially, any web server/application 
>>>>>> vulnerability which allows the attacker to upload a file to the impacted 
>>>>>> system and execute it also works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     The particular exploit which was uploaded to my system was compiled 
>>>>>> with GCC 4.8.5 released 20150623, though this should not imply that the 
>>>>>> vulnerability was not available earlier than that date given its 
>>>>>> longevity. As to who is being targeted, anyone running Linux on a web 
>>>>>> facing server is vulnerable. "
>>>>>
>>>>> The many eyes of the Linux community failed again. They were probably
>>>>> too busy masturbating to the thought of Wretched Stallman covering his
>>>>> nude body in barbecue sauce.
>>>>
>>>> You fucking ruined my lunch with that one!!
>>>> That disgusting slob is hideous.
>>>> I'll bet the hookers he hires charge him combat pay because he is so 
>>>> repulsive.
>>>
>>> He doesn't hire hookers because they aren't open-source. He only sleeps
>>> with the bodies of women that have been opened up and examined by "many
>>> eyes."
>> 
>> Sounds like a doctor I used to know. He and his wife were swingers. The 
>> scuttle butt around the hospital was that he whored his good looking 
>> wife out for gang bangs where anonymous men would fuck her without a 
>> condom and after the multiple men, like 20+ or more, were done with her, 
>> he would clean her out with his tongue and then be the last to fuck her.
>> 
>> Word got around the hospital and he was fired.
>> It was too bad because aside from his strange hobby, he was an excellent 
>> doctor.
>> 
>> Go figure.
>
> I can't imagine how a guy can be turned on watching his wife be treated
> like an object. That's pretty disgusting to say the least.

Me either but this was a thing both of them were into so I say whatever 
floats your boat.

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9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 14:25 +0000
  Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-21 17:49 +0200
    Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-21 22:45 +0200
      Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 20:51 +0000
        Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-21 22:59 +0200
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 21:11 +0000
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-21 23:14 +0200
            Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 21:20 +0000
              Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-22 11:38 +0200
        Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-21 23:13 +0200
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 21:17 +0000
            Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-22 11:35 +0200
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-21 17:23 -0400
            Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 21:52 +0000
              Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-22 11:33 +0200
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-22 08:19 -0400
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-22 08:33 -0400
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-22 09:23 -0400
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-22 15:48 +0200
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-22 10:02 -0400
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-22 16:07 +0200
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2016-10-22 16:46 +0100
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-23 09:04 -0400
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-22 14:34 -0400
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2016-10-22 12:45 -0700
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 12:10 -0700
            Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2016-10-21 23:05 +0100
              Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-21 18:09 -0400
    Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2016-10-22 04:35 -0700
  Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-21 11:50 -0400
    Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 15:56 +0000
      Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-21 12:46 -0400
        Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 20:16 +0000
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-21 18:30 -0400
            Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 22:54 +0000
    Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 16:10 +0000
      Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. tmelmosfire <tmelmosfire@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 09:34 -0700
      Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-21 22:43 +0200
        Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 20:45 +0000
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-21 22:47 +0200
            Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 20:52 +0000
              Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-21 19:31 -0600
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-22 01:46 +0000
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-22 11:30 +0200
                A Flounder is as Flounder does Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-22 08:12 -0400
                Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-22 13:49 -0600
        Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-21 19:31 -0600
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-22 01:44 +0000
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-22 04:29 +0200
          Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-22 11:30 +0200
            Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-22 13:50 -0600
      Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-22 08:11 -0400
        Re: 9 Year Old Linux Kernel Exploit Discovered. This is a bad one. Godzilla <godzilla@lizardboss.invalid> - 2016-10-22 12:24 +0000

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