CVE-2001-0979

This exploit targets a buffer overflow vulnerability in HP-UX 11.11/11.0's swinstall/swverify utilities to achieve local privilege escalation. It leverages an environment variable (LANG) to overflow a buffer and execute shellcode, spawning a root shell.

This exploit leverages a buffer overflow in HP-UX's swverify (setuid root) to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. It constructs a malicious buffer with NOP sleds, shellcode, and a targeted return address to hijack execution flow.