Ehud Gavron TrACESroute Terminator Function Format String Vulnerability

BID:4956

Info

Ehud Gavron TrACESroute Terminator Function Format String Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4956
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jun 06 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 06 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Vulnerability discovery credited to DownBload <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.1.1
- Compaq Tru64 5.1 a
- Compaq Tru64 5.1
- Compaq Tru64 5.0 f
- Compaq Tru64 5.0 a
- Compaq Tru64 5.0
- Compaq Tru64 4.0 g
- Compaq Tru64 4.0 f
- Compaq Tru64 4.0 d
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.0 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.0
- Debian Linux 2.2 sparc
- Debian Linux 2.2 powerpc
- Debian Linux 2.2 IA-32
- Debian Linux 2.2 arm
- Debian Linux 2.2 alpha
- Debian Linux 2.2 68k
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1.1
- IBM AIX 4.3.3
- IBM AIX 4.3.2
- IBM AIX 4.3.1
- IBM AIX 4.3
- IBM AIX 5.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1 ia64
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0 ppc
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0
- Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
- Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.1 ia64
- Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.1 alpha
- Redhat Linux 7.0 sparc
- Redhat Linux 7.0 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.0 alpha
- Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
- Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1 _x86
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6_x86
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- SuSE Linux 8.0 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.3 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.3 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.3 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.2 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.1 x86
- SuSE Linux 7.1 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.1 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.1 alpha
- SuSE Linux 7.0 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.0 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.0 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.0 alpha
- SuSE Linux 6.4 ppc
- SuSE Linux 6.4 i386
- SuSE Linux 6.4 alpha
Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.1
Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.0
+ Debian Linux 2.2 sparc
+ Debian Linux 2.2 powerpc
+ Debian Linux 2.2 IA-32
+ Debian Linux 2.2 arm
+ Debian Linux 2.2 alpha
+ Debian Linux 2.2 68k
+ Debian Linux 2.2
+ SuSE Linux 7.0 sparc
+ SuSE Linux 7.0 ppc
+ SuSE Linux 7.0 i386
+ SuSE Linux 7.0 alpha
+ SuSE Linux 6.4 ppc
+ SuSE Linux 6.4 i386
+ SuSE Linux 6.4 alpha
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Ehud Gavron TrACESroute Terminator Function Format String Vulnerability

A format string vulnerability exists in TrACESroute. The problem exists in the terminator (-T) function of the program. Due to improper use of the fprintf function, an attacker may be able to supply a malicious format string to the program that reults in writing of attacker-supplied values to arbitrary locations in memory.

Exploit / POC

Ehud Gavron TrACESroute Terminator Function Format String Vulnerability

The following exploit was provided by "thc \[@drug.org\]" <[email protected]> for TrACESroute 6.0 GOLD:

Solution / Fix

Ehud Gavron TrACESroute Terminator Function Format String Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released a fix which addresses this issue:


Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.0

Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.1

Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.1.1

References

Ehud Gavron TrACESroute Terminator Function Format String Vulnerability

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