It sounds like you doing fine there are a few good blogs on privilege escalation.

Might want look at
g0tmi1k blog
pentestermonkey

You'll often need to look at the exploit and try to figure out what it's specifically trying to do. You may find your kernel version falls within the range of a lot of public exploits, but there may be other conditions or subtleties that need to be analyzed in order to determine if a given exploit will compile and execute successfully.

Be sure to review other privilege services and pillage the system to the extent you're able to as well.

Looks good, and I'm sure others will benefit from reading your experiences.  Thanks for the share.

Glad you like it (so far) tturner. There will be more content added after my OSCP course is done and a special B-Sides London 2013 edition is in the works as well.

I've been following your blog for a while, and have been enjoying your OSCP updates. I've also read your Scapy guide and found it really useful, looking forward to the special B-Sides London 2013 edition.

Good luck!

@catalyst256 & @superkojiman: I'd be interested to hear a guestimate as to how many hours you invested over the 90 day's (@catalyst256 I appreciate you still have 30 to go) and a rough idea of how this broke down.

@superkojiman: I took a look at your blog too, you should update your profile to include it. Some good posts on there!

Thanks

Regarding the number of hours I spent over the 90 day period, I would say about 8 hours on weekdays, and more on weekends. I work full time so I couldn't devote as much time as I wanted to the course. I took notes as I went through, and finished everything with two weeks to spare. Spent that time finalizing the report and going back to take screenshots or any other info that I may have missed. Overall, I still managed to have a bit of a life while taking the course.

Cool sounds like you are having a lot of fun. This course is on my list to do so any tips or feedback from you would be nice.