HP Tru64/OSF1 DXTerm Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:5746

Info

HP Tru64/OSF1 DXTerm Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5746
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2002-1129
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 30 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 05:06PM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to Snosoft. It was also independently discovered for OSF1 by Euan Briggs <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Digital OSF/1 3.2 G
Digital OSF/1 3.2 F
Digital OSF/1 3.2 DE2
Digital OSF/1 3.2 DE1
Digital OSF/1 3.2 D
Digital OSF/1 3.2 C
Digital OSF/1 3.2 B
Digital OSF/1 3.2
Digital OSF/1 3.0 B
Digital OSF/1 3.0
Compaq Tru64 5.1 a PK2 (BL2)
Compaq Tru64 5.1 a PK1 (BL1)
Compaq Tru64 5.1 a
Compaq Tru64 5.1 PK5 (BL19)
Compaq Tru64 5.1 PK4 (BL18)
Compaq Tru64 5.1 PK3 (BL17)
Compaq Tru64 5.1
Compaq Tru64 5.0 a PK3 (BL17)
Compaq Tru64 5.0 a
Compaq Tru64 5.0 PK4 (BL18)
Compaq Tru64 5.0 PK4 (BL17)
Compaq Tru64 5.0
Compaq Tru64 4.0 g PK3 (BL17)
Compaq Tru64 4.0 g
Compaq Tru64 4.0 f PK7 (BL18)
Compaq Tru64 4.0 f PK6 (BL17)
Compaq Tru64 4.0 f
Compaq Digital Unix 4.0 f
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

HP Tru64/OSF1 DXTerm Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The HP Tru64/OSF1 dxterm utility is prone to a locally exploitable buffer overflow condition. This issue is due to insufficient checking of command line input supplied via the "-xrm" parameter. This parameter serves the same purpose as the "-customization" command line parameter, which is also not sufficiently checked.

Since this utility is installed setuid root, code execution that results from successful exploitation of this issue will yield root privileges on the system.

Solution / Fix

HP Tru64/OSF1 DXTerm Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
HP has made Tru64 fixes available. OSF1 users are advised to upgrade to later versions of Tru64 UNIX and apply all available patches.


Compaq Tru64 4.0 g PK3 (BL17)

Compaq Tru64 4.0 f PK7 (BL18)

Compaq Tru64 5.0 a PK3 (BL17)

Compaq Tru64 5.1 a PK2 (BL2)

Compaq Tru64 5.1 PK5 (BL19)

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