Security flaw in Free BSD provides root access
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Oct 21, 2024
Oct 21, 2024
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It has just been discovered that a critical security hole in the latest version of FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users absolute full control over the operating system
The security bug is present in FreeBSD 8.0 and is known to affect versions 7.1 and 7.2 of the open-source OS as well
The security flaw resides in FreeBSD's so-called run-time link editor. A binary run by an unprivileged Unix user can be executed with administrative privileges in a restricted environment
This would allow the user to obtain complete root access to the operating system.
All that's required to run the exploit code, is any standard SSH command shell.
The security bug is present in FreeBSD 8.0 and is known to affect versions 7.1 and 7.2 of the open-source OS as well
The security flaw resides in FreeBSD's so-called run-time link editor. A binary run by an unprivileged Unix user can be executed with administrative privileges in a restricted environment
This would allow the user to obtain complete root access to the operating system.
All that's required to run the exploit code, is any standard SSH command shell.