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GNU GNATS 3.0 02 - PR-Edit Command Line Option Heap Corruption

🗓️ 21 Jun 2003 00:00:00Reported by dong-h0un UType 
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Heap overflow in GNATS pr-edit due to insufficient argument checks; potential privilege escalation.

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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8003/info

A heap overflow vulnerability has been reported for the pr-edit utility of GNATS. The vulnerability occurs due to insufficient checks performed on the arguments to the '-d' commandline option.

Successful exploitation may result in the execution of attacker-supplied code with potentially elevated privileges. 

/usr/local/lib/gnats/./pr-edit -d`perl -e 'print "x"x9000'`

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