Re: local root compromise in openbsd 3.0 and below

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer () antioche eu org>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:25:54PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 01:25 PM 4/12/2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
> > NetBSD isn't vulnerable either.
>
> What about Solaris? Its /bin/mail does not appear to have the -I
> option.

> From my 2.7 install, it seems that /bin/mail desn't have any shell-escape
caracters. However /usr/ucb/mail seems to be vulnerable.

But for this to be exploited, there needs to be a /usr/ucb/mail command run
by root, using input which can be influenced in some way by non-root user.
I don't think there's any in the base distrib but could be probably found
in third-party scripts. It would be best if /usr/ucb/mail was fixed to not
accept shell escapes from non-tty inputs.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer () antioche eu org>
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