Posted by Kevin Johnson on Jun 23
Hello!
Could somebody write what threats there are when kernel memory disclosure is found?
I mean not along with another bug (since kmem disclosure could lead to some interesting pointers addresses and values,
etc), but only itself!?
I guess it could lead to /etc/shadow disclosure, if some suid programs accessing it would be running in the background
(chsh, for example). Is it correct?
BTW, when chsh and other programs-accessing-shadow-file are…
Source: From kernel memory disclosure to privilege escalation: when and how?