Multiple Linux vendor imwheel Vulnerability

BID:1060

Info

Multiple Linux vendor imwheel Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1060
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 13 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 13 2000 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was posted to the Bugtraq mailing list by Sebastian <[email protected]> on March 16, 2000.
Vulnerable: Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
Halloween Linux 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Multiple Linux vendor imwheel Vulnerability

A vulnerability exists in the 'imwheel' package for Linux. This package is known to be vulnerable to a buffer overrun in its handling of the HOME environment variable. By supplying a sufficiently long string containing machine executable code, the imwheel program can be caused to run arbitrary commands as root. This is due to a setuid root perl script named 'imwheel-solo' which invokes the imwheel program with effective UID 0.

Exploit / POC

Multiple Linux vendor imwheel Vulnerability

An exploit has been made available.

Solution / Fix

Multiple Linux vendor imwheel Vulnerability

Solution:
RedHat has made patches available for this problem.

Removal of the setuid wrapper script 'imwheel-solo' will eliminate this problem.


Redhat Linux 6.1 i386

Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc

Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha

Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc

Redhat Linux 6.2 i386

Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha

References

Multiple Linux vendor imwheel Vulnerability

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