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Depends on their popularity. For Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Mint, MX Linux, etc. it took me 10 years to find a single LPE. Special case Linux distros, like those for
by netsec_burn 6y ago
Depends on their popularity. For Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Mint, MX Linux, etc. it took me 10 years to find a single LPE. Special case Linux distros, like those for audio editing or signal processing, have about 1-3 LPE's in the first 30 min to an hour I look at them. And GoboLinux.. broken permissions, broken trust of library load paths, root SUIDs with 5 LPE issues at a glance of the source. They even gave some regular binaries root privileges because why not. I didn't look into the root services running or writable paths because I assumed those would be vulnerable too. The question is not if you can get root, but how many ways there are to get root. I was running GoboLinux in a 15 minute session, and once it expired I didn't start a new one.
I'll come back to it and do a more comprehensive audit. I haven't released any zerodays I've found, ever, but recently I was thinking about making a blog. This might be some good material.
- sieste 6y agoThanks, good to know that this is not the norm. Yes please do a more comprehensive audit. And start a blog.
- adamcstephens 6y agoAny experience with opensuse?
- netsec_burn 6y agoIt's the last distro on my bucket list. I have vulnerabilities but nothing to drop a root shell.
- Lapsa 6y agojust wanted to thank you for the update
- hmsimha 6y agoHave you audited Tails by any chance?
- netsec_burn 6y agoI have. Only so far as to test if another zeroday I created worked. It did because it shares a lot of similarities with other Debian-based targets. I haven't tested Tails further, because there are no ethical buyers of Tails vulnerabilities.