module
Chkrootkit Local Privilege Escalation
Disclosed | Created |
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2014-06-04 | 2018-05-30 |
Disclosed
2014-06-04
Created
2018-05-30
Description
Chkrootkit before 0.50 will run any executable file named /tmp/update
as root, allowing a trivial privilege escalation.
WfsDelay is set to 24h, since this is how often a chkrootkit scan is
scheduled by default.
as root, allowing a trivial privilege escalation.
WfsDelay is set to 24h, since this is how often a chkrootkit scan is
scheduled by default.
Authors
Thomas Stangner
Julien "jvoisin" Voisin
Julien "jvoisin" Voisin
Platform
Unix
Architectures
cmd
References
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