Traceroute-nanog Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:6166

Info

Traceroute-nanog Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 6166
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2002-1364
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 12 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 07:16PM
Credit: This vulnerability was announced in a SuSE security advisory.
Vulnerable: NANOG Traceroute 6.1.1
+ 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
 + SuSE Linux 8.0
+ SuSE Linux 7.3
+ SuSE Linux 7.2
NANOG Traceroute 6.0
+ SuSE Linux 7.1
+ SuSE Linux 7.0
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 6.0
+ 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

Traceroute-nanog Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been discovered in Traceroute-nanog. It has been reported that Traceroute-nanog contains a buffer overflow condition.

The overflow occurs in the 'get_origin()' function in the 'traceroute.c' file. Due to insufficient bounds checking performed by the whois parser, it may be possible to cause 'get_origin()' to corrupt memory on the system stack.

This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to gain root privileges on a target host.

Exploit / POC

Traceroute-nanog Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

An exploit has been provided by Carl Livitt <[email protected]>:

Solution / Fix

Traceroute-nanog Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released fixes addressing this issue. Users are advised to upgrade to the latest packages.

It has been reported that the fixes made available by SuSE do not fix the vulnerability, but instead remove root privileges from the executable. Remote code execution may be possible if an attacker controls the resolving host.

Fixes:


Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.0

NANOG Traceroute 6.0

Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.1.1

NANOG Traceroute 6.1.1

References

Traceroute-nanog Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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