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37-Year-Old Kernel Flaw Exploited to Gain Root Access on OpenBSD — PoC Released
A proof-of-concept exploit that gains root access on OpenBSD by chaining two kernel flaws. The main bug dates back about 37 years to the original BSD source code. According to Security researchers at Calif, the flaw survived because a shared memory attachment counter named shm_nattch used a signed 16-bit value. OpenBSD fixed both issues before […] The post 37-Year-Old Kernel Flaw Exploited to Gain Root Access on OpenBSD — PoC Released appeared first on Cyber Security News.
A proof-of-concept exploit that gains root access on OpenBSD by chaining two kernel flaws. The main bug dates back about 37 years to the original BSD source code. According to Security researchers at Calif, the flaw survived because a shared memory attachment counter named shm_nattch used a signed 16-bit value. OpenBSD fixed both issues before Calif…
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