Bugtraq: SCO 5.0.6 issues (lpforms)

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Strategic Reconnisiance Team Security Advisory(SRT2001-06)
Topic: SCO 5.0.6 issues (lpforms)
Vendor: SCO
Release Date: 03/27/01
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.: Description
SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 ships with suid bin 
/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/lib/lpforms.
lpforms has poor handling of command line arguments resulting in a buffer 
overflow.
lpforms will core dump if fed more than 6240 chars.

.: Impact
/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/lib/lpforms `perl -e 'print "A" x 7000'`
Memory fault - core dumped

This problem makes it possible to overwrite memory space of the running 
process,
and potentially execute code with the inherited privileges of bin.

.: Workaround

.: Systems Affected
SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 upgrade from 5.0.x and 5.0.6 fresh install.
chmod -s /opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/lib/lpforms

.: Proof of Concept
To be released at a later time.

.: Vendor Status
Vendor was notified on 03/22/01. Vendor lab tests confirmed the issue. Patch
status is unknown.

.: Credit
Kevin Finisterre
dotslash () snosoft com, krfinisterre () checkfree com

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