On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 07:10:03PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Al Viro wrote:
> > Any real-world examples of exploitable holes based on that?
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> Return to libc exploit, calling dup2, where some privileged data is
> redirected from the normal file descriptor to one of the attackers
> choosing. The latter could be an outgoing socket connection which would
> result in leaking the data to the outside.
>
> normal code intruder
>
> so = socket()
>
> fd = open ("local-file")
>
> dup2(so, fd);
>
> write (fd, privileged data)
>
>
> It's just a little function call. If the arguments of dup2() are known
> this is not a big issue to construct.
So which code is supposed to do that open/write in your example? Library?
Unmodified application? Application specifically modified to make *that*
open() randomized?
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