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Re: Buffer Overflow in Spider game
From: Steve Kemp <steve () steve org uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:23:46 +0100
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:05:23PM +0300, Security Team wrote:
A vulnerability has been discovered in the game spider, an application contained in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by overflowing the -s parameter. Impact: The attacker can gain group privileges. By default "games".
Neither Debian stable nor unstable contain any spider binaries setuid or setgid. Debian Stable - spider 1.1-9: uml201:~# ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/*spider* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53628 Dec 13 2001 /usr/X11R6/bin/round.spider -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54396 Dec 13 2001 /usr/X11R6/bin/small.spider lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27 Oct 4 19:23 /usr/X11R6/bin/spider -> /usr/X11R6/bin/round.spider Debian Unstable - spider 1.1-11: skx@lappy:~$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/*spider* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61048 2004-09-04 12:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/round.spider -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57624 2004-09-04 12:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/small.spider lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2004-10-04 20:10 /usr/X11R6/bin/spider -> round.spider You can find a list of setuid/setgid binaries contained in Debian stable and unstable at: http://www.setuid.org/ Steve -- # The Debian Security Audit Project. http://www.debian.org/security/audit
Current thread:
- Buffer Overflow in Spider game Security Team (Oct 04)
- Re: Buffer Overflow in Spider game Steve Kemp (Oct 04)
- Re: Buffer Overflow in Spider game van Helsing (Oct 05)
- Re: Buffer Overflow in Spider game Matt Zimmerman (Oct 06)
- Re: Buffer Overflow in Spider game van Helsing (Oct 05)
- Re: Buffer Overflow in Spider game Steve Kemp (Oct 04)