GID Games Exploits

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Oct 15 21:47:13 PDT 2005


On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:39:27PM -0700, Stephen Major wrote:
> It has come to my attention that there are quite a few local exploits
> circling around in the private sector for GID Games.
> 
>  
> 
> Several of the games have vanilla stack overflows in them which can lead to
> elevation of privileges if successfully exploited.

Big deal..that's why they're setgid games (which can only write to
game data files) and not setuid anything important :-)

Kris
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