Alfredo Ortega: OpenBSD Remote Exploit

09/01/2006 56 min

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Episode Synopsis

OpenBSD is regarded as a very secure Operating System. This article details one of the few remote exploit against this system. A kernel shellcode is described, that disables the protections of the OS and installs a user-mode process. Several other possible techniques of exploitation are described.

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