It’s the new of the month: a local exploit (thanks Emilio J.) that affects both 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernel series. It uses a serious bug in the vmsplice function of the file systems subsystem. It’s as easy as getting the code and runnning it to become the root.
But it only affects to the kernel if it supports this function. As I compile my own kernels, I tested the exploit and it didn’t work.
So, I’m happy to discover spenting hours and hours configuring and recompiling the kelmer is not only funny. It is useful too 