Threaded Read News Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:12389

Info

Threaded Read News Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12389
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 27 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 27 2005 12:00AM
Credit: ZzagorR is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: trn trn 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Threaded Read News Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A local buffer overflow vulnerability reportedly affects trn. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly validate the length of user-supplied strings prior to copying them into finite process buffers.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, facilitating privilege escalation.

Exploit / POC

Threaded Read News Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following exploit has been made available:

Solution / Fix

Threaded Read News Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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Threaded Read News Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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