lbreakout2 'Home' Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	45797
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Jan 13 2011 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 13 2011 12:00AM
Credit:	Silvio Cesare
Vulnerable:	Lgames LBreakout2 2.5.2-2.1
Not Vulnerable:

lbreakout2 'Home' Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

lbreakout2 is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary-checks on user-supplied data.

A local attacker may exploit this to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges. Successful exploits will result in the complete compromise of affected computers.

lbreakout2 'Home' Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

lbreakout2 'Home' Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

lbreakout2 'Home' Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

• Crash with long HOME environment variable (Silvio Cesare)
  
• LBreakout Homepage (LGames)