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Petris Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18362
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Release Date:
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2006-01-10
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Popularity:
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5,211 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | Petris 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-3540
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Description:
Steve Kemp has reported a vulnerability in Petris, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of environment variables when processing highscores. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges on systems, where the game has been installed setuid or setgid (typically setgid "games").
Solution:
Remove any setuid / setgid bits.
Games should not be installed on production systems.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Steve Kemp, Debian Security Audit project
Original Advisory:
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-929
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