On Sunday, August 07, 2011 01:34:38 PM dann frazier wrote:
> This was reported by Christian Ohm at:
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632923
> 
> The perf command, provided as part of the Linux kernel source, looks
> for and honors configuration settings in ./config. A local user could
> obtain elevated privileges by convincing a superuser to run the perf
> command from a directory the user controls.

And in recent kernels has an executable stack:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704296

-Steve



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