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H-Sphere buffer overflow Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA7832  
Release Date: 2003-01-08

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:H-Sphere 2.x

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Description:
H-Sphere has been found vulnerable to a remotely exploitable buffer overflow.

The problem exists in the webshell binary, which is installed suid root. The problem is that the boundary tags aren't verified, by supplying boundary tags of more than 300 characters EIP is over written, this allows arbitrary code to be executed as root.

Solution:
Install this patch:
http://www.psoft.net/misc/webshell_patch.html
http://psoft.net/shiv/U23/u-webshell.tgz

Provided and/or discovered by:
Carl Livitt



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7. SiteStudio and H-Sphere "name" Script Insertion Vulnerability
8. H-Sphere Cross Site Scripting


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