Re: Sol2.x Mouse EXPLOIT info - CORRECTION

Christopher Klaus (cklaus@shadow.net)
Tue, 17 Jan 1995 03:41:48 -0500 (EST)

> 
> > 
> > OK, Exploit details:
> > 
> > 1) place pointer exactly in centre of screen
> > 2) start to spiral out ANTICLOCKWISE - this movement must be
> >    smooth and finish in the top left corner
> > 3) as soon as you reach the top left corner, unplug the mouse within
> >    4 seconds.
> > 4) You should then be at the # prompt.
> > 
> > Have Fun.
> > 
> 
> This will NOT work on Solaris 2.X boxes.  The spiraling out should in
> fact be CLOCKWISE.  An anticlockwise movement will give a shell running
> as user nobody, rather than as uid 0!
> 
> Top left is however important, so that we have 0,0 stored in cred->uid
> and cred->gid.  Due to the nature of the mouse driver, an anticlockwise
> movement would spiral the uid/gid pair to the largest uid available on
> the system, which under normal conditions would be user nobody.

I tried it both boths and neither are successful, what am I doing wrong?!@?!

(griN)


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Neil
> 
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