Re: Achiever CSS-50 Personal Paper Shedder Buffer Overflow (!) - Remote

["Yvan Laverdiere" <laverdiy () videotron ca>]

I gave it a try, this time remotely by throwing a bundle of paper at the
machine but I could not establish a connection between the paper and the
shredder...


Yvan
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From: "Xyntrix" <xyntrix () bitz org>
To: "w1re p4ir" <w1rep4ir () disinfo net>
Cc: <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Achiever CSS-50 Personal Paper Shedder Buffer Overflow (!)


> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:59 PM, w1re p4ir <w1rep4ir () disinfo net> said:
> > A vulnerability has been found in my companies Paper Shedder. When
putting more than the recommened paper into the shedder (but not enough for
a DoS) It allows the paper to go in. This could cause abirtary paper to
allowed in side the shredder. This vulnerability has been discovered on
Sept. 10. Achiever Has not been notified of this particular vulnerability.
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> i tried to replicate this problem and could not get it to work. i am
> currently using a stable version of a paper shredder. i also tried this
> on a post-processing paper shredding device where a third-party carries
> out the shredding process, and that also failed to acvieve a stack
> overflow. what size of paper are you using? i believe i am using 24lb,
> legal size.
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