Re: GID Games Exploits

From: Mathieu Arnold (mat_at_mat.cc)
Date: 10/16/05

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    Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:15:23 +0200
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Stephen Major <smajor@gmail.com>

    +-le 16/10/2005 00:47 -0400, Kris Kennaway écrivait :
    | On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:39:27PM -0700, Stephen Major wrote:
    |> It has come to my attention that there are quite a few local exploits
    |> circling around in the private sector for GID Games.
    |>
    |>
    |>
    |> Several of the games have vanilla stack overflows in them which can lead to
    |> elevation of privileges if successfully exploited.
    |
    | Big deal..that's why they're setgid games (which can only write to
    | game data files) and not setuid anything important :-)

    It means that I can change my own score to something better, that's very
    important :-) 

    -- 
Mathieu Arnold
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