Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2009-2793. PoCs published by Tavis Ormandy.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a local privilege escalation vulnerability in NetBSD by causing a kernel stack desynchronization. It uses signal handling and a NULL function pointer dereference to trigger the vulnerability.
Description
The kernel in NetBSD, probably 5.0.1 and earlier, on x86 platforms does not properly handle a pre-commit failure of the iret instruction, which might allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to a tempEIP pseudocode variable that is outside of the code-segment limits.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a local privilege escalation vulnerability in NetBSD by causing a kernel stack desynchronization. It uses signal handling and a NULL function pointer dereference to trigger the vulnerability.