Oracle Gridengine sgepasswd Buffer Overflow

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Summary  
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Name: Oracle Gridengine sgepasswd Buffer Overflow  
Release Date: 30 November 2012  
Reference: NGS00107  
Discoverer: Edward Torkington <[email protected]>  
Vendor: Oracle  
Vendor Reference:   
Systems Affected: Multiple packages - version 6_2u7  
Risk: High  
Status: Published  
  
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TimeLine  
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Discovered: 1 August 2011  
Released: 1 August 2011  
Approved: 1 August 2011  
Reported: 3 August 2011  
Fixed: 17 April 2012  
Published: 30 November 2012  
  
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Description  
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http://www.oracle.com/us/products/tools/oracle-grid-engine-075549.html  
  
"Oracle Grid Engine software is a distributed resource management (DRM) system that manages the distribution of users' workloads to available compute resources. While compute resources in a typical datacenter have utilization rates that are on average 10%-25%, Oracle Grid Engine can help  
a company increase utilization to 80%, 90% or even 95%. This significant improvement comes from the intelligent distribution of workload to the most appropriate available resources.  
  
When users submit their work to Oracle Grid Engine as jobs, the software monitors the current state of all resources in the cluster and is able to assign these jobs to the best-suited resources. Oracle Grid Engine gives administrators both the flexibility to accurately model their computing  
environments as resources and to translate business rules into policies that govern the use of those resources."  
  
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Technical Details  
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After installation an sgepasswd binary used as part of Oracle Gridengine is marked as a SUID binary:  
  
[dave@localhost lx24-x86]$ ls -al sgepasswd  
-r-s--x--x 1 root root 1109010 Dec 20 2010 sgepasswd  
  
This binary appears to be vulnerable to a number of buffer overflows. The easiest to exploit is in the delete a password for a named account (-d) function. Other exploits can corrupt the sgepasswd file which appears to be written in another directory. If it is corrupt sgepasswd will not run  
anymore. A sample exploit is shown below:  
  
[dave@localhost lx24-x86]$ ./sgepasswd -d `perl -e 'print "\x90"x127 . "<exploit bytes obfuscated>"'`  
sh-2.05b# id  
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=500(dave)  
  
This would a allow a local low-privileged attacker to escalate their privileges.  
  
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Fix Information  
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This has been addresses as part of oracle April update:  
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2012-366314.html  
  
  
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