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Diamorphine Rootkit Signal Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Nov 7, 2013
Created
Feb 19, 2020

Description

This module uses Diamorphine rootkit's privesc feature using signal
64 to elevate the privileges of arbitrary processes to UID 0 (root).

This module has been tested successfully with Diamorphine from `master`
branch (2019-10-04) on Linux Mint 19 kernel 4.15.0-20-generic (x64).

Authors

m0nad
bcoles [email protected]

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86, x64

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/linux/local/diamorphine_rootkit_signal_priv_esc
    msf exploit(diamorphine_rootkit_signal_priv_esc) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(diamorphine_rootkit_signal_priv_esc) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(diamorphine_rootkit_signal_priv_esc) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(diamorphine_rootkit_signal_priv_esc) > exploit
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