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Re: COSEINC Linux Advisory #1: Linux Kernel Parent Process Death Signal Vulnerability Aug 15 2007 09:37PM
Wojciech Purczynski (cliph isec pl)

> Could you please explain it to me where do you see privilege escalation
> here?

Sending a signal to privileged process is a privilege itself. Under some
circumstances this may lead to other consequences. For example I was able
to code local root exploit using some very common suid binary, althou...

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