Linux cdrecord Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:1265

Info

Linux cdrecord Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1265
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: May 29 2000 12:00AM
Updated: May 29 2000 12:00AM
Credit: First posted to Bugtraq by noir <[email protected]> on May 27, 2000.
Vulnerable: Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Linux cdrecord Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The linux cdrecorder binary is vulnerable to a locally exploitable buffer overflow attack. When installed in a Mandrake 7.0 linux distribution, it is by default setgid "cdburner" (which is a group, gid: 80, that is created for the application). The overflow condition is the result of no bounds checking on the 'dev=' argument passed to cdburner at execution time. This vulnerability can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with egid "cdburner". cdburner has been verified (by the writers of the exploit) to be exploitable on an Intel linux system running Mandrake 7.0. Other distributions of linux may be vulnerable to this problem as well.

Exploit / POC

Linux cdrecord Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Exploit available:

Solution / Fix

Linux cdrecord Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
To upgrade automatically, use ? MandrakeUpdate ?. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package from one of the FTP server mirrors and uprade with "rpm -Uvh package_name". All mirrors are listed on http://www.mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 Updated packages are available in the "updates/" directory.

For example, if you are looking for an updated RPM package for Mandrake 7.0, look for it in: updates/7.0/RPMS/


Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0

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Linux cdrecord Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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