There is a group-utmp-to-root privilege escalation vulnerability in /bin/login in Debian, and I expect in all other Linux distros. For details and exploit please see http://bugs.debian.org/505271 Currently am not aware of any group utmp issues (that could be leveraged to get root).
Cheers, Paul Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
