ANDR : Format String Vulnerability

Format string vulnerability Andrey Kolischak March, 2001 [email protected] Format string vulnerability It is no secret that most of the software, in addition to specific vulnerabilities, contains “holes” associated with an incorrect programming style. If some of these holes, such as buffer overflows,...

GLSA-200512-01 : Perl: Format string errors can lead to code execution

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200512-01 Perl: Format string errors can lead to code execution Jack Louis discovered a new way to exploit format string errors in Perl that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. This is perfomed by causing an integer wra...

Perl: Format string errors can lead to code execution

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. It contains printf functions that allows construction of strings from format specifiers and parameters, like the C printf functions. A well-known class of vulnerabilities, called format string errors, result o...

Perl programs providing user-controlled I/O format strings may contain format string vulnerabilities

Overview Programs written in Perl may contain many of the same types of format string vulnerabilities as programs written in C. Description Perl is a programming language used in many applications and commonly used for web applications. It provides many of the same functions for formatted I/O as ...

linux/ppc - connect back execve /bin/sh 240 bytes

linux/ppc connect back execve /bin/sh 240 bytes. Shellcode exploit for linuxppc platform / connect-core5.c by Charles Stevenson / char hellcode = / connect back & execve /bin/sh linux/ppc by core / "\x7c\x3f\x0b\x78" /mr r31,r1/ "\x3b\x40\x01\x0e" /li r26,270/ "\x3b\x5a\xfe\xf4" /addi r26,r26,-26...

Debian DSA-072-1 : groff - printf format attack

Zenith Parse found a security problem in groff the GNU version oftroff. The pic command was vulnerable to a printf format attack which made it possible to circumvent the -S' option and execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-107-1 : jgroff - format print vulnerability

Basically, this is the same Security Advisory as DSA 072-1, but for jgroff instead of groff. The package jgroff contains a version derived from groff that has Japanese character sets enabled. This package is available only in the stable release of Debian, patches for Japanese support have been...

Debian DSA-066-1 : cfingerd - remote exploit

Steven van Acker reported on bugtraq that the version of cfingerd a configurable finger daemon as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from two problems : - The code that reads configuration files files in which $ commands are expanded copied its input to a buffer without checking for a...

Debian DSA-058-1 : exim - local printf format attack

Megyer Laszlo found a printf format bug in the exim mail transfer agent. The code that checks the header syntax of an email logs an error without protecting itself against printf format attacks. It's only exploitable locally with the -bS switch in batched SMTP mode. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Debian DSA-057-1 : gftp - printf format attack

The gftp package as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has a problem in its logging code: it logged data received from the network but it did not protect itself from printf format attacks. An attacker can use this by making an FTP server return special responses that exploit this. %NASLMINLEVE...

Debian DSA-061-1 : gnupg - printf format attack

The version of GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP implementation as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from two problems : - fish stiqz reported on bugtraq that there was a printf format problem in the doget function: it printed a prompt which included the filename that was being...

CVE-2002-0176

CVE-2002-0176 concerns the printf wrappers in libsafe, affected in versions 2.0-11 and earlier. The vulnerability arises because the wrappers do not properly handle argument indexing specifiers, allowing certain calls to proceed with unverified arguments. Mandrake’s MDKSA-2002:026 notes that form...

CVE-2002-0176

The printf wrappers in libsafe 2.0-11 and earlier do not properly handle argument indexing specifiers, which could allow attackers to exploit certain function calls through arguments that are not verified by libsafe...

[SECURITY] [DSA 107-1] New jgroff packages fix printf format problem

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 107-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 30th, 2002 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : jgroff...

[SECURITY] [DSA-072-1] groff printf format problem

Package : groff Problem type : printf format attack Debian-specific: no Zenith Parse found a security problem in groff the GNU version of troff. The pic command was vulnerable to a printf format attack which made it possible to circumvent the -S option and execute arbitrary code. This has been...

[SECURITY] [DSA-066-1] cfingerd remote exploit

Package : cfingerd Problem type : remote exploit Debian-specific: no Steven van Acker reported on bugtraq that the version of cfingerd a configurable finger daemon as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from two problems: 1. The code that reads configuration files files in which $ command...

[SECURITY] [DSA-061-1] multiple gnupg problems

Package : gnupg Problem type : printf format attack web of trust pollution Debian-specific: no The version of GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP implementation as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from two problems: fish stiqz reported on bugtraq that there was a printf format problem ...

[SECURITY] [DSA-058-1] exim printf format attack

Package : exim Problem type : remote printf format attack Debian-specific: no Megyer Laszlo found a printf format bug in the exim mail transfer agent. The code that checks the header syntax of an email logs an error without protecting itself against printf format attacks. This problem has been...

[SECURITY] [DSA-055-1] gftp remote exploit

Package : gftp Problem type : printf format attack Debian-specific: no The gftp package as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has a problem in its logging code: it logged data received from the network but it did not protect itself from printf format attacks. An attacker can use this by making...