APC apcupsd Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

BID:7200

Info

APC apcupsd Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 7200
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0098
CVE-2003-0099
CVE-1999-0029
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 04 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 09:06PM
Credit: These vulnerabilities were announced by the vendor.
Vulnerable: APC apcupsd 3.8.6
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 3.10.5
APC apcupsd 3.8.6

Discussion

APC apcupsd Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Apcupsd provides UPS power management under Linux and BSD systems for APC Products.

Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been reported for apcupsd client. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may result in an attacker obtaining elevated privileges on the vulnerable system or code execution.

Further details are currently unknown. This BID will be updated as more information becomes available.

Exploit / POC

APC apcupsd Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

APC apcupsd Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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.

Fixes available:


APC apcupsd 3.8.2

APC apcupsd 3.8.5

APC apcupsd 3.8.6

References

APC apcupsd Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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