[TriLUG] ugh. local root exploit.

Ian Kilgore ikilgore at nc.rr.com
Sat Jan 8 12:37:24 EST 2005


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well the exploit segfaults on my box, so I dunno... =D

but if you want a quick fix thats not really a fix but it is for now,
set the permissions on /dev/shm to root:root, 0600.  Thats far from
foolproof, or even good, but its sure to stop a few scriptkiddies.
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