APC apcupsd Client Syslog Format String Vulnerability

BID:6828

Info

APC apcupsd Client Syslog Format String Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 6828
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0098
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Feb 11 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 08:06PM
Credit: This vulnerability was reported in the product changelog.
Vulnerable: APC apcupsd 3.8.5
+ Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1
+ 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
 + Debian Linux 3.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2 ppc
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1 ia64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
+ SuSE Linux 8.1
+ SuSE Linux 8.0 i386
 + SuSE Linux 8.0
APC apcupsd 3.8.2
+ SuSE Linux 7.3 sparc
 + SuSE Linux 7.3 ppc
 + SuSE Linux 7.3 i386
 + SuSE Linux 7.3
Not Vulnerable: APC apcupsd 3.8.6

Discussion

APC apcupsd Client Syslog Format String Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported for the apcupsd client that may result in an attacker obtaining elevated privileges on the vulnerable system.

Due to a programming error in the 'log_event' function it may be possible to exploit a format string vulnerability. If successfully exploited this could result in the execution of attacker-supplied code.

Any code executed would be in the security context of the apcupsd process.

Solution / Fix

APC apcupsd Client Syslog Format String Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo Linux has released an advisory. Users who have installed sys-apps/apcupsd are advised to upgrade to apcupsd-3.10.5 by issuing the following commands:

emerge sync
emerge -u apcupsd
emerge clean

SCO has released Linux advisory CSSA-2003-015.0 to address this issue.

The vendor has addressed this issue in the latest version of apcupsd.


APC apcupsd 3.8.2

APC apcupsd 3.8.5

References

APC apcupsd Client Syslog Format String Vulnerability

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