Traceroute-Nanog Integer Overflow Memory Corruption Vulnerability

BID:7994

Info

Traceroute-Nanog Integer Overflow Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7994
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0453
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jun 20 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 10:06PM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to "assasa sasasaaa" <[email protected]>.
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
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Traceroute-Nanog Integer Overflow Memory Corruption Vulnerability

An integer overflow vulnerability has been reported for Traceroute-Nanog. It has been reported that when processing certain max_ttl and nprobes values from a traceroute invocation, some functions or utilities may fail to sufficiently handle the size of data returned.

Because an attacker can control arbitrary memory corruption, although conjectured and unconfirmed, an attacker might exploit this condition to execute arbitrary instructions with elevated privileges.

It should be noted that this vulnerability might only affect the Debian implementation of Traceroute-Nanog.

Exploit / POC

Traceroute-Nanog Integer Overflow Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

Traceroute-Nanog Integer Overflow Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Solution:
Debian has released advisory DSA 348-1 to address this issue. For fix information, see referenced advisory.


NANOG Traceroute 6.1.1

References

Traceroute-Nanog Integer Overflow Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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