milot/dissecting-pkexec-cve-2021-4034Educational analysis and proof-of-concept code for CVE-2021-4034 (pkexec local privilege escalation), with detailed comments explaining the vulnerability for defensive learning.
This is a part of the blog post that explains how CVE-2021-4034 actually works.
This repository contains a single C file that contains code and comments, the compilation and running the file is fairly straight forward:
gcc pkexec-cve-2021-4034.c -o run-milotio
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