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Vulnerability used in [[p0sixspwn]]
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== '''Vulnerability''' ==
 
== '''Vulnerability''' ==
   

Revision as of 19:11, 4 January 2014

Vulnerability used in p0sixspwn

Vulnerability

There is a vulnerability in the method posix_spawn() in the XNU kernel. When it is used with the flag _POSIX_SPAWN_DISABLE_ASLR, it disables ASLR for the process running. On x86_64 processes it also disables heap randomization. Furthermore the flag _POSIX_SPAWN_ALLOW_DATA_EXEC enables execution on the heap

Credit

I0n1c

Links

Writeup by i0n1c p. 4 ff.