executing insmod hangs the entire os

[Saumendra Dash]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:46:00 +0530, noyb noybee said:

>> am on a VM running CentOS 6.6 with kernel version 2.6.32-504.

>Which probably has kernel relocation and ASLR enabled.

>> unsigned long *syscall_table = (unsigned long *)0xffffffff81600560;

>So that isn't pointing at the syscall table in the running kernel.

>>     syscall_table[__NR_chroot] = new_chroot;
 
Leave apart the security holes / undocumented ways etc. raised by Valdis, the way you are getting the address of the syscall table( from System.map), and then changing that will only hang the system.
The syscall table is read only. You need to make it writable by changing the write protection bit in the Control Regs.

Hope it helps.

Thanks,
Saumendra 






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