[Moderator: With the announcement of HERT, I will forward the first two (maybe three) advisories to the list so people can get a feel for them.] Forwarded From: "Anthony C . Zboralski" <aczat_private> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------- HERT - Hacker Emergency Response Team alertat_private - http://www.hert.org Advisory: #00001 Title: lpstat Date: 26 January 1999 Summary: Buffer overflow in Solaris /usr/bin/lpstat System affected: Solaris 2.6, 2.6_x86, 2.7, 2.7_x86 IMPACT: Local users may obtain root priviledge. - -------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 1999 Hacker Emergency Response Team Permission is granted to reproduce and distribute HERT advisories in their entirety, provided the HERT PGP signature is included and provided the alert is used for noncommercial purposes and with the intent of increasing the aware- ness of the Internet community. This advisory is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 1. Background: The lpstat command prints information about the current status of the LP print service. On Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, /usr/bin/lpstat is suid root and we've found it to be vulnerable to a buffer overflow. Exploit code for this vulnerability is in circulation. 2. Affected Supported versions Solaris versions: 2.7, 2.7_x86, 2.6, 2.6_x86 3. Recommendations Temporary fix: chmod -s /usr/bin/lpstat chmod -s /usr/bin/lpq Wait for Sun to issue a patch that will correct this problem. To subscribe to the HERT Alert mailing list, email alertat_private with subscribe in the body of the message. Contact hertat_private for more information. The HERT PGP public key is available at ftp://ftp.hert.org/pub/HERT_PGP.key To report a vulnerability: http://www.hert.org/vul_reporting_form -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNq82VbiV3oeHg1NdAQH9MAQAtEDQxHaDdlDNP/B8Bl785Y4nDidgJYyR TZwJl/QD/0g/Q0IoX80muxw8fR2+XKnyq7qqhaI1EhC+1z0ScPjPWWOa12oKTKAG hFGpLdq5WdVrmHf1X9b90ZD5ov9KIsDuVxSTpUv0dPCCvxfSJb4Zdbr2+lQDjks/ orxjIwo5jgY= =NG0f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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