SCO Unixware i2odialogd Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:876

Info

SCO Unixware i2odialogd Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 876
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 22 1999 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 22 1999 12:00AM
Credit: Vulnerability discovery credited to Brock Tellier <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: SCO Unixware 7.1
Not Vulnerable: SCO Open Server 5.0.5

Discussion

SCO Unixware i2odialogd Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

UnixWare is a variant of the Unix operating system originally written by SCO, and distributed and maintained by Caldera.

i20dialogd is a daemon which provides a front-end for controlling the i20 subsystem. It is shipped with SCO Unixware and installed running as root by default. In its authentication mechanism exists a serious buffer overflow vulnerability. The username/password buffers are of a fixed length (88+ characters) with no bounds checking performed on them. Because of this it is possible to overflow the buffer, corrupt the stack and overwrite the return address altering the flow of execution (and running arbitrary code). It should be noted that exploit code must be encoded (base64) before being sent to the server.

Exploit / POC

SCO Unixware i2odialogd Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Exploit contributed by Brock Tellier <[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

SCO Unixware i2odialogd Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Fix available:


SCO Unixware 7.1

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SCO Unixware i2odialogd Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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