Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:21:13 -0700 From: Stephen Major <smajor@gmail.com> To: "'Mathieu Arnold'" <mat@mat.cc>, "'Kris Kennaway'" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: RE: GID Games Exploits Message-ID: <43520db6.74a03918.7133.ffffc4ec@mx.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FB7164D6E6041F49E3BEE97@cc-126-240.int.t-online.fr>
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Heh, was not familiar with it. I heard there were underground exploits, = I had no idea of the severity so I posted it here to hear feedback, so as = long as there is nothing to worry about cool. -----Original Message----- From: Mathieu Arnold [mailto:mat@mat.cc]=20 Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 1:15 AM To: Kris Kennaway; Stephen Major Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GID Games Exploits +-le 16/10/2005 00:47 -0400, Kris Kennaway =E9crivait : | 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. |>=20 |> =20 |>=20 |> Several of the games have vanilla stack overflows in them which can = lead to |> elevation of privileges if successfully exploited. |=20 | 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 :-) --=20 Mathieu Arnold
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