Re: [PATCH] nvram: Fix root triggerable integer overflow crash

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Saturday 18 July 2009 17:09:09 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > This bug probably is exploitable by overwriting the function return address or something
> > > like that. But let's hope there's no distribution out there with user write permissions
> > > on the /dev/nvram node. So it's probably only exploitable by root.
> > 
> > I have seen setups with group-writeable /dev/nvram to support some (old!)
> > thinkpad utilities.
> 
> Yes it is  crw-rw---- 1 root root  on Debian.

That is not a problem. "crw-rw---- 1 root nvram", would be.  That becomes a
local privilege escalation right there, if it can be exploited for something
other than DoS (which looks somewhat likely).

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