HP-UX Software Distributor Lang Environment Variable Local Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

BID:8986

Info

HP-UX Software Distributor Lang Environment Variable Local Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8986
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0089
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 03 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 25 2006 08:43PM
Credit: Discovery is credited to NSFocus.
Vulnerable: HP HP-UX 11.11
HP HP-UX 11.0 4
HP HP-UX 11.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

HP-UX Software Distributor Lang Environment Variable Local Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

HP has reported that some Software Distributor (SD) utilities are prone to a locally exploitable buffer-overrun vulnerability. Affected utilities include swinstall(1M) and swverify(1M).

Exploit / POC

HP-UX Software Distributor Lang Environment Variable Local Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

Exploit code from watercloud <[email protected]> is available.

Solution / Fix

HP-UX Software Distributor Lang Environment Variable Local Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

Solution:
HP has released fixes.


HP HP-UX 11.0

HP HP-UX 11.0 4

HP HP-UX 11.11

References

HP-UX Software Distributor Lang Environment Variable Local Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

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