EDB-33229

functional

NetBSD 5.0.1 - 'IRET' General Protection Fault Handling Privilege Escalation

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Tavis Ormandypublished 2009-09-16catalog exploit_db
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exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2009-2793USmedium4.6Exploit
The kernel in NetBSD, probably 5.0.1 and earlier, on x86 platforms does not properly handle a pre-commit failure of the iret instruction, which might allow local users to gain priv…
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