RootBSD blog » exploit http://www.rootbsd.net/blog Our FreeBSD Hosting Discussion Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:46:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 RTLD Security Exploit in FreeBSD http://www.rootbsd.net/blog/2009/rtld-security-exploit-in-freebsd/ http://www.rootbsd.net/blog/2009/rtld-security-exploit-in-freebsd/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:28:52 +0000 admin http://www.rootbsd.net/blog/?p=75 On November 30 2009, a security vulnerability was discovered by Nikolaos Rangos (aka Kingcope) in recent FreeBSD releases exploting code in the run-time link-editor, rtld. A patch was shortly issued and updated binaries were announced December 3 2009 in FreeBSD security announcement FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld. This vulnerability is critical in nature as it allows a local user to get root access.

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