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osh Two Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA14159
Release Date: 2005-02-08
Last Update: 2005-12-09
Popularity: 5,997 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:osh 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in osh, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

1) A boundary error exists in the function "iopen()" in "main.c" and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by supplying an overly long argument.

Example:
"/usr/sbin/osh exit [more than 1024 bytes]"

2) A boundary error exists in the "writable()" function in handlers.c and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by running osh from a directory with a directory name of more than 255 bytes.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.7. Other versions may also be affected.

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