Re: Overflows in minicom

From: Tiago F P Rodrigues (11108496at_private)
Date: Mon May 11 1998 - 03:32:02 PDT

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    On Sun, 10 May 1998, William Burrow wrote:
    
    > On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 09:48:55PM +0200, Tiago F P Rodrigues wrote:
    > >  It seems minicom(distributed with slak3.4) have some overflow
    > > vulnerabilities, namely in the '-p' switch and when you pick a config
    > > file on the arguments. (a strcpy and a sprintf)
    > ...
    > >  If this is new, I may post an exploit if prompted to.
    >
    > What kind of exploit will you be able to get?  Minicom is setgid uucp on
    > my system, the worst you can do is upset UUCP operations, which don't happen
    > here anyway, or possibly change the permissions on the dev file.  System
    > is Slack 3.2.
    >
    
     True enough, minicom is only sgid uucp in latest RedHat & Slakware
    releases, though keep in mind if you rebuild minicom from source it will
    install it setuid root by default.
    



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