SCO OpenServer lpusers Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:2557

Info

SCO OpenServer lpusers Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2557
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 27 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 27 2001 12:00AM
Credit: Reported to bugtraq by Secure Network Operations <[email protected]> on 27 Mar 2001
Vulnerable: SCO Open Server 5.0.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

SCO OpenServer lpusers Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 (and possibly earlier versions) ships with several suid bin executables used in printer administration and related tasks.

This includes lpusers, a component used to set the queue priority of jobs submitted to the LP print service by users.
'lpusers' contains a locally exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability that occurs when commandline arguments are of excessive length.

If properly exploited, this can yield root privilege to the attacker.

Exploit / POC

SCO OpenServer lpusers Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/lib/lpusers -u `perl -e 'print "A" x 700'`

Memory fault - core dumped

Solution / Fix

SCO OpenServer lpusers Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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SCO OpenServer lpusers Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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