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Ubuntu Vivid Upstart Privilege Escalation

Ubuntu Vivid Upstart Privilege Escalation
Posted Mar 2, 2015
Authored by halfdog

Ubuntu Vivid Upstart suffers from a logrotate privilege escalation vulnerability.

tags | exploit
systems | linux, ubuntu
SHA-256 | 57ba2d59b5541f853776351cd1d83860c51f823ac02e23145009c9b6c6f926b2

Ubuntu Vivid Upstart Privilege Escalation

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Although just reported to Ubuntu, this minor dev-branch issue was already made public. As the launchpad/lkml/... feed-miners should not play all the games alone, and as others may want to learn how beginner errors still make it into packages of quite large distributions, enjoy the power of

for session in /run/user/*/upstart/sessions/*
do
env $(cat $session) /sbin/initctl emit rotate-logs >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
done

executed as root. See [1]

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[1] http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/UpstartLogrotationPrivilegeEscalation/

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