Sun Solaris Traceroute Multiple Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

BID:14049

Info

Sun Solaris Traceroute Multiple Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 14049
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2005-2071
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jun 24 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 24 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Przemyslaw Frasunek <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Sun Solaris 10.0_x86
Sun Solaris 10
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Sun Solaris Traceroute Multiple Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Sun Solaris traceroute is affected by multiple local buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

These vulnerabilities present themselves when the application handles excessive data supplied through command line arguments.

These issue are reported to affect /usr/sbin/traceroute running on Sun Solaris 10.

Some reports indicate that this issue cannot be reproduced. It is also reported that this issue is only exploitable on the Solaris x86 platform.

Exploit / POC

Sun Solaris Traceroute Multiple Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

An exploit is available for the buffer overflow vulnerability.

The following proof of concept examples are available:
/usr/sbin/traceroute -g 1 -g 2 -g 3 -g 4 -g 5 -g 6 -g 7 -g 8 -g 9 -g 10 127.0.0.1

traceroute -s 1.1.1.1. 127.0.0.1

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for the heap overflow issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

Sun Solaris Traceroute Multiple Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Sun has released patches to address this issue.


Sun Solaris 10

Sun Solaris 10.0_x86

References

Sun Solaris Traceroute Multiple Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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