Rediscovering CVE-2024-48990 and Crafting My Own Exploit

Introduction On November 19th, 2024, Qualys publicly disclosed five local privilege escalation vulnerabilities discovered in the needrestart binary that comes installed by default on Ubuntu Server installations. They disclose the technical details of these here , however, I will be attempting to rediscover CVE-2024-48990 prior to reading the technical details based purely on the information from…