SETI@home Client Program Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:7292

Info

SETI@home Client Program Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7292
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2003-1118
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 06 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 09:06PM
Credit: The discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to "Berend-Jan Wever" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: SETI SETI@home 3.7
SETI SETI@home 3.6
SETI SETI@home 3.5
SETI SETI@home 3.4
SETI SETI@home 3.3
Not Vulnerable: SETI SETI@home 3.8

Discussion

SETI@home Client Program Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been discovered in the SETI@home client program. Due to insufficient bounds checking when processing server data, it may be possible for a remote attacker to trigger a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a target system, with the privileges of the user invoking the application.

This vulnerability affects SETI@home releases prior to 3.08.

Exploit / POC

SETI@home Client Program Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

It has been reported that an exploit is publicly available.

Solution / Fix

SETI@home Client Program Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
FreeBSD have released an advisory (FreeBSD-SN-03:02) to address this issue.

The vendor has addressed this issue in version 3.08. Users are advised to upgrade their clients as soon as possible.

Gentoo Linux has released an advisory. Users who have installed app-sci/setiathome are advised to upgrade to setiathome-3.08 by issuing the following commands:

emerge sync
emerge setiathome
emerge clean

Fix:


SETI SETI@home 3.3

SETI SETI@home 3.4

SETI SETI@home 3.5

SETI SETI@home 3.6

SETI SETI@home 3.7

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