VICE Monitor Memory Dump Format String Vulnerability

BID:10543

Info

VICE Monitor Memory Dump Format String Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10543
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0453
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jun 14 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 05:16AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability is credited to Spiro Trikaliotis <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: VICE VICE 1.14
VICE VICE 1.13
VICE VICE 1.12
VICE VICE 1.11
VICE VICE 1.10
VICE VICE 1.9
VICE VICE 1.8
VICE VICE 1.7
VICE VICE 1.6
Not Vulnerable: VICE VICE 1.15

Discussion

VICE Monitor Memory Dump Format String Vulnerability

VICE monitor is reported prone to a format string vulnerability. The issue is reported to exist when output from the monitor "memory dump" command is displayed. Memory contents are used without sanitization as the format string for a print formatted function. As a result, malicious memory contents containing format specifiers will be interpreted literally when a memory dump is performed; this may result in attacker-specified memory being corrupted in the context of the user who is running the VICE monitor memory dump command.

Exploit / POC

VICE Monitor Memory Dump Format String Vulnerability

It has been reported that this issue is being exploited in the wild, although at this time these exploits are not publically available.

Solution / Fix

VICE Monitor Memory Dump Format String Vulnerability

Solution:
Spiro Trikaliotis <[email protected]>, a developer for the VICE project, supplied the following supported patch:

http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/patches/vice-1.14-mon-vuln.patch

VICE version 1.15 has been released and resolves this issue.


VICE VICE 1.10

VICE VICE 1.11

VICE VICE 1.12

VICE VICE 1.13

VICE VICE 1.14

VICE VICE 1.6

VICE VICE 1.7

VICE VICE 1.8

VICE VICE 1.9

References

VICE Monitor Memory Dump Format String Vulnerability

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