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ahv on Jan 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pi...

Or if you know the distro, it is trivial to get the package containing the su executable and locate the address.

kmm on Jan 23, 2012 [–]

I compiled it myself, so that is not an option.

burgerbrain on Jan 23, 2012 | [–]

Presumably they only need to guess the flags you used then. There is really not all that much entropy there.

And I suspect doing so is fairly uncommon in production environments anyway.

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