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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:12:52 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2009-2692 kernel: uninit op in SOCKOPS_WRAP() leads to privesc

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Apparently new root exploit from Brad, see his twitter:
> http://twitter.com/spendergrsec
> 
> The video is a bit sick in my opinion.
> 
> Disclosed apparently next week.

So, the cat is out of the bag. The exploit is available, but so is the
patch.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2692
http://git.kernel.org/linus/e694958388c50148389b0e9b9e9e8945cf0f1b98

Thanks, Eugene

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