[HN Gopher] Detailed Report on Local Privilege Escalation in Ubu...
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Detailed Report on Local Privilege Escalation in Ubuntu Desktop
(Pwn2Own 2021)
Author : y0n3uchy
Score : 44 points
Date : 2021-12-08 15:02 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (flatt.tech)
(TXT) w3m dump (flatt.tech)
| staticassertion wrote:
| We have a very detailed writeup on eBPF exploitation for anyone
| interested in the subject:
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| https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/kernel-pwning-with-ebpf-a...
| josteink wrote:
| I'm no expert, but from the looks of thing it seems like a local
| privilege escalation vulnerability/exploit, tied to the Linux
| kernel's eBPF subsystem.
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| So depending on your use case it may not be a "stop the line"
| vulnerability, but I would still like to know if this is patched
| yet or not in the latest Ubuntu repos.
| deadbunny wrote:
| Would be helpful if they providing/had a CVE.
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