>[Hackerslab bug_paper] Solaris chkperm buffer overflow
>
>[Hackerslab:/users/loveyou/buf]$ chkperm -n `perl -e 'print "x" x 200'`
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>it is recommended that the suid bit is
>removed from chkperm using command :
>
> chmod 400 /usr/vmsys/bin/chkperm
Hrm, yeah, I found this one some months ago while I was checking out chkperm's
ability to read bin-owned files. After some testing I concluded that, at
least on SPARC, the function where the overflow occurs will exit() before it
is allowed to return (and then return again), meaning that a buffer overflow
exploit is probably not possible. I would be interested to see if anyone came
to a different conclusion.
Brock Tellier
UNIX Systems Administrator
Chicago, IL, USA
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