Re: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 09.26.2002: Exploitable Buffer Overflow in gv

[Boris Veytsman <borisv () lk net>]

> From: David Endler <dendler () idefense com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:58:48 -0600 (MDT)

> A proof of concept exploit for Red Hat Linux designed by zen-parse is
> attached to this message.  It packages the overflow and shellcode in
> the "%%PageOrder:" section of the PDF.
>
> [root@victim]# ls -al /tmp/itworked 
> /bin/ls: /tmp/itworked: No such file or directory 
> [root@victim]# gv gv-exploit.pdf 
> [root@victim]# ls -al /tmp/itworked 
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 16:50 /tmp/itworked
> [root@victim]# 

Does not work for me:

boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8 (debian)
boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ gv gv-exploit.pdf 
Segmentation fault
boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ ls -al /tmp/itworked
ls: /tmp/itworked: No such file or directory

-- 
Good luck

-Boris

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