Ubuntu vulnerable against "h00lyshit" exploit?

John L Fjellstad john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org
Sun Jul 16 03:36:15 UTC 2006


"Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> writes:

> When I run this exploit against my own machine, the software
> segfaults.  I'm going to surmise that Ubuntu 6.06 is not vulnerable
> assuming the system is up to date with patches.  I am testing this
> under Ubuntu kernel 2.6.15-26-686.
>
> Here is the strace output of the running exploit:
>
> cbell at circe:~/Desktop$ strace ./h00lyshit

You need to pass it a ~100 MB file
./h00lyshit <big file>

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