Re: Linux kernel do_mremap VMA limit local privilege escalation vulnerability

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 13:15, Rotariu Bogdan wrote:
> on that site is an "exploit" check that you could try to see if fedora
> kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl is affected
> 
> [+] kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp  vulnerable: YES  exploitable YES

These 'YES's are the result of it doing a comparison on the kernel
version, and seeing '2.4.22'. The fix is backported, so its essentially
2.4.25 as far as the vulnerability is concerned.

>     MMAP #65525  0x50bf5000 - 0x50bf6000
> [-] Failed

Which is why it fails..

	Dave