Bugtraq: Re: Local stackbased overflow found for silly Poker v0.25.5 (advisory + poc exploit)

[steve () uk intasys com]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:08:27AM +0200, demz wrote:

> Local stackbased overflow found in sill Poker v0.25.5
> silly Poker contains an $HOME environment variable stack overflow,
> this can be exploited very simple to execute arbitrary code with gid=games
> privileges.
  I reported this bug to the sillypoker mainter 12 days ago as you can
 see here:

        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211611

  However your analysis is incorrect, sillypoker isn't installed
 setgid(games) upon either the Debian Stable or the Debian Unstable
 distribution.


Steve
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