Just to share that /proc/pid/environ  suffers from bugs  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/24/245  that can be considered vulnerabilities unless your kernel includes the commit b409e578d9a4ec95913e ’proc: clean up /proc//environ handling’  .  The fixes are in the mainline now.  The PoC to dump exec area can found here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/22/163 Linux Procfs suffers from other vulnerabilities, like the: ->open() + ->dup(stdin,stdout…) + execve(suid_program)… These […]

BsidesAlgiers was held on 04-05 May in ESI (Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique) Algiers. Thanks to the DzOWASP folks and others… Slides can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/Shellmates/tag/bsides-algiers My presentation “Linux kernel and Recent Security Protections”: http://www.slideshare.net/Shellmates/bsides-algiers-linux-kernel-and-recent-security-protections-djallal-harouni

Alors un petit poste rapidement pour partager la méthode que j’utilise si je dois tester rapidement des modifications ou des patches pour le kernel Linux. Il faut noter que j’utilise toujours Qemu pour la virtualization/émulation, vraiment il n y a pas mieux surtout pour l’émulation des CPUs, sinon pour la virtualization: KVM (Il faut un […]

Salam alikoum, D’abord je voudrais remercier tous ceux qui vont participer à ce DZBlogDay 2012 et tous les organisateurs. Merci pour ce jour. Dans ce post vous trouverez de l’informatique (mon domaine), je vais être bref faute de temps et un peu positive pour aller de l’avant (et un peut personnel faute d’inspiration). Le thème […]

I have presented “Systèmes Embarqués Libres“  (Embedded Systems) at the “Sofware Freedom Day 2011 – Algeria” at Medea University Dr. Yahia Farès. The presentation was about embedded Linux and the Free Software tools that we can use to build our custom embedded systems. The presentation was in French. You can find it here: systemes_embarques_libres (odp) […]

مع بعض التدابير الأمنية chroot في بيئة GNU/Linux على نظام Nginx سنرى في هذا الموضوع كيفية تنصيب خادم الويب Here: http://opendz.org/sysadmin/nginx

hello I have published a security advisory for Mplayer and VLC: [DZC-2009-001] Advisory blog post: Advisory: The Movie Player and VLC Media Player Real Data Transport parsing integer underflow. Affected products: The Movie player <= svn r29446 [1] VLC media player <= 1.0.0 [2] Possible others applications that use the xine lib code [3]. Discovred […]

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