KDE kdesud DISPLAY Environment Variable Overflow

BID:1274

Info

KDE kdesud DISPLAY Environment Variable Overflow

Bugtraq ID: 1274
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Unknown
Local: Yes
Published: May 27 2000 12:00AM
Updated: May 27 2000 12:00AM
Credit: Posted to BugTraq on Friday May 26, 2000 by noir <[email protected]>
Vulnerable: KDE KDE 1.2
- SuSE Linux 6.4
KDE KDE 1.1.2
+ Caldera OpenLinux 2.3
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
KDE KDE 1.1.1
KDE KDE 1.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

KDE kdesud DISPLAY Environment Variable Overflow

/usr/bin/kdesud has a DISPLAY environment variable overflow which could allow for the execution of arbitrary code.

Exploit / POC

KDE kdesud DISPLAY Environment Variable Overflow

This exploit was tested on Mandrake 7.02 and results in gid=0

Solution / Fix

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