Calife Local Memory Corruption Vulnerability

BID:9776

Info

Calife Local Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9776
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 01 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 01 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to DownBload <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Calife Calife 2.8.6
Calife Calife 2.8.5
Calife Calife 2.8.4 c
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Calife Local Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Calife has been reported prone to a local memory corruption vulnerability. The issue is likely due to a lack of sufficient sanity checks performed on certain sequences of data that is read from the file "/etc/calife.auth".

Due to the nature of this vulnerability, it has been conjectured that a local user who has write access to the "/etc/calife.auth" configuration file may potentially leverage this issue to have arbitrary instructions executed in the context of the root user.

Exploit / POC

Calife Local Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

Calife Local Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Solution:
Debian has released advisory DSA 461-1 dealing with this issue. Fixes are currently available.


Calife Calife 2.8.4 c

References

Calife Local Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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