Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:54:41 +0200
From: Michal Zalewski <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]Subject: XFree86 server overflow
XFree86 3.3.6 (and probably 4.0.0 as well ;) - by running X server (no
matter it's setuid, or called from setuid Xwrapper - works in both cases,
seems to me Xwrapper in default RH 6.x distro is rather dumb ;) with
-xkbmap parameter and over 2100 of 'A's (or shellcode, again, it's rather
trivial to exploit :), you'll get beautiful overflow with root privledges
in main (Xserver) process...
listen to the gdb... Cannot access memory at address 0x41414141.
This has been tested both with recent RH6.1/6.2 Xservers (3.3.5/3.3.6),
and:
XFCom_i810 Version 1.0.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: October 13 1999
Btw. while testing this bug, we have noticed strange behaviour of some
drivers. For example, in one case we get kernel oops, just like that
(linux 2.2.14, XFree86 3.3.6 XF86_S3V):
eip: 41414141 eflags: 00013296
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000bb8 edx: 00000009
esi: bfffe92c edi: 00000400 ebp: 00000000 esp: bfffe464
Stack: 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141 41414141
:)
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