ePerl Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:2464

Info

ePerl Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2464
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2001-0458
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 07 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 04:46AM
Credit: Discovered by Fumitoshi Ukai and Denis Barbier
Vulnerable: Ralf S. Engelschall ePerl 2.2.13
Ralf S. Engelschall ePerl 2.2.12
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

ePerl Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

ePerl, a multipurpose Perl interpreter, contains several string operations which are performed insecurely.

If the data copied is externally-supplied, it may be possible for an attacker to exploit these insecure function calls as stack based buffer overflows.

If ePerl is installed setuid root, which is an optional configuration, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges.

Exploit / POC

ePerl Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

ePerl Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
upgraded ePerl packages have been supplied for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 and Linux-Mandrake 7.1, 7.2 and Corporate Server 1.0.1.


Ralf S. Engelschall ePerl 2.2.12

Ralf S. Engelschall ePerl 2.2.13

References

ePerl Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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