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From: Fuska <fuska () phreaker net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 02:48:53 +0100

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  Happy new year.

  Take a look at this:

r00t:~$ ls -las `which artswrapper` `which artsd`
4 -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root     4048 Dec 28 22:43 /usr/bin/artswrapper*
120 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     root   117644 Dec 28 22:43 /usr/bin/artsd*


r00t:~$ artsd -m `perl -e 'print "A"x3000'`
Segmentation fault

r00t:~$ gdb artsd
GNU gdb 5.1
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) r -m `perl -e 'print "A"x3000'`
Starting program: /usr/bin/artsd -m `perl -e 'print "A"x3000'`
- - -----------cut--------------
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 11372)]
0x41414141 in ?? ()


r00t:~$ artswrapper -m `perl -e 'print "A"x3000'`
 running as realtime process now (priority 50)
Segmentation fault

  Is this exploitable?


r00t:~$ dpkg -s libarts | grep Version
Version: 4:2.2.2-10

  Using Debian Sid.

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