X-RDate: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:58:34 +0500 (ESK)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 03:14:01 -0500
From: satan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]Subject: BoS: Buffer overflow in Yapp Conferencing System...
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This is my first Bugtraq post, hope I'm doing this right...
The Yapp Conferencing System Version 2.2 (and others?) has an exploitable
buffer overrun in it's macro processing code. On line 215 of macro.c, we
see:
sprintf(buff,"%s=%s",name,value);
The variable "value" is taken from the environment and is never checked to
ensure that it's length does not exceed the ammount of space remaining in
the buffer after "NAME=" has been inserted. It is trivial to overflow
"buff" by defining "NAME" in the environment to contain a string longer
then the size of "buff" (512 characters) minus the length of "NAME=". I
have included an exploit which I wrote for Intel 80x86/Linux, it uses the
variable "EDITOR" (which I selected compeletely at random). This bug is
most like not going to have serious security implications, since Yapp
hardly ever runs setuid root (in fact, the README suggests creating a
special user to run Yapp as), but I could see a situation where an
attacker gains access to the special Yapp uid, replaces the Yapp binary
with a trojan version, and then waits for root to run it. If you're
looking for a way to patch this hole, read the exploit source.
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