CVE-2002-1155

This exploit leverages a buffer overflow in the kon2 utility (v0.3.9b) on RedHat 9.0 by overflowing command-line arguments with a crafted payload containing shellcode and a manipulated return address to achieve local privilege escalation.

This exploit targets a buffer overflow vulnerability in the kon2 utility (version 0.3.9b-16 and earlier) via the -Coding command-line argument. It leverages a shellcode to escalate privileges to root by exploiting insufficient bounds checking.