Cidentd

I'm sorry if this already known but i'm new to bugtraq. I've been using
cidentd for quite a long of time and I have never had any problems. But,
while i was looking in the code i found something interesting. The
buffers cident uses for reading from /etc/cident.users and ~/.authlie
are all 1024 bytes long. So i created as a normal user a ~/.authlie with
a single line like this:
user xxxx......xxxxx
         (1024 times)
And something not so unexpectable happened... Cidentd would core dump...
I'm not too good with making buffer overflow exploits, but I believe
that xxx could be replaced with some shell code like making a suid shell
in /tmp.

Jackal/XTC
Received on Jan 12 1998