Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2008-0009.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a functional local privilege escalation exploit for CVE-2008-0009, targeting a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's vmsplice system call (2.6.23-2.6.24). It manipulates kernel memory to escalate privileges to root by overwriting process credentials.
Description
The vmsplice_to_user function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which might allow local users to access arbitrary kernel memory locations.
Exploits (2)
This is a functional local privilege escalation exploit for CVE-2008-0009, targeting a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's vmsplice system call (2.6.23-2.6.24). It manipulates kernel memory to escalate privileges to root by overwriting process credentials.
This is a functional local privilege escalation exploit for CVE-2008-0009, targeting the Linux kernel vmsplice vulnerability (2.6.17-2.6.24.1). It manipulates kernel memory structures to escalate privileges to root by exploiting improper input validation in the vmsplice system call.