Description
Multiple race conditions in certain system call wrappers in Generic Software Wrappers Toolkit (GSWTK) allow local users to defeat system call interposition and possibly gain privileges or bypass auditing.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Generic Software Wrappers Toolkit 1.6.3 (GSWTK) - Race Condition Privilege Escalation EDB-30464 · local · Aug 9, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 25251 vdb-entry
- http://www.watson.org/~robert/2007woot/
- 26469 third-party-advisory