Oops! Proxy Server Auth Remote Format String Vulnerability

BID:13172

Info

Oops! Proxy Server Auth Remote Format String Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13172
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2005-1121
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 14 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 12:56PM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to GHC team <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Igor Khasilev Oops Proxy Server 1.5.53
Igor Khasilev Oops Proxy Server 1.5.19
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0
Igor Khasilev Oops Proxy Server 1.4.22
- Debian Linux 2.3
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 3.5.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2
- Redhat Linux 7.0
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
 - SuSE Linux 7.0
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Oops! Proxy Server Auth Remote Format String Vulnerability

Oops! Proxy Server is prone to a remote format string vulnerability. This issue presents itself because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input prior to passing it as the format specifier to a formatted printing function.

A successful attack may result in crashing the server or lead to arbitrary code execution. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation in the context the server.

Oops! versions prior to and including version 1.5.53 are reported prone to this issue.

Exploit / POC

Oops! Proxy Server Auth Remote Format String Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] &lt;mailto:[email protected]&gt;.

Solution / Fix

Oops! Proxy Server Auth Remote Format String Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released an advisory (GLSA 200505-02) and an updated eBuild to address this issue. Gentoo users may apply updates by issuing the following series of commands as a superuser:
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/oops-1.5.24_pre20050503"

Debian has released advisory DSA 726-1 to address this issue. Please see the attached advisory for details on obtaining and applying fixes.


Igor Khasilev Oops Proxy Server 1.5.19

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Oops! Proxy Server Auth Remote Format String Vulnerability

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