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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:33:08 +0100
From: "Secure Network Operations , Inc." <recon@SNOSOFT.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: SCO 5.0.6 issues (lpadmin)

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Strategic Reconnisiance Team Security Advisory(SRT2001-07)
Topic: SCO 5.0.6 issues (lpadmin)
Vendor: SCO
Release Date: 03/27/01
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.: Description
SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 ships with suid bin=20
/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/lib/lpadmin.
lpadmin has poor handling of command line arguments resulting in a buffer=20
overflow.
lpadmin will core dump if fed more than 6476 chars.

.: Impact
/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/lib/lpadmin `perl -e 'print "A" x 7000'`
Memory fault - core dumped

This problem makes it possible to overwrite memory space of the running=20
process,
and potentially execute code with the inherited privileges of bin.

.: Workaround

.: Systems Affected
SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 upgrade from 5.0.x and 5.0.6 fresh install.
chmod -s /opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/lib/lpadmin

.: Proof of Concept
To be released at a later time.

.: Vendor Status
Vendor was notified on 03/22/01. Vendor lab tests confirmed the issue. Patch
status is unknown.

.: Credit
Kevin Finisterre
dotslash@snosoft.com, krfinisterre@checkfree.com

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Strategic Reconnisiance Team | recon@snosoft.com
http://recon.snosoft.com     | http://www.snosoft.com
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