Well, it had to happen…

Yesterday evening two of our linux boxes were exploited. I had to try it out for myself; and yes, it really does work. :| Booted up my Ubuntu in Parallels, installed build-essential & ran that program!

sudo apt-get install build-essential
gcc what-ever-the-file-name-is.c
./a.out

This is what it looks like:

Kernel exploit

My-oh-my… I’m pretty sure this doesn’t require any more explanations ;)