Security Advisory SA9096 - GNATS Privilege Escalation

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Secunia Advisory SA9096

GNATS Privilege Escalation

Secunia Advisory

SA9096

Release Date

2003-06-23

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

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Software:

GNATS 3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in GNATS allowing malicious local users to escalate their privileges.

GNATS version 3.002 and 3.2:

1) Heap based overflow in "pr-edit" (Problem report editer) when handling the "-d" parameter.

2) Stack based overflow in "pr-edit" in the handling of lock files.

GNATS version 3.113 and 3.113.1

3) Heap based overflow in "en-index", "pr-edit", "queue-pr" in the handling of environment variables.

Solution
Remove the setuid bits from GNATS binaries. Note: This may limit functionality.

Provided and/or discovered by
dong-houn yoU

Original Advisory
http://x82.inetcop.org/h0me/adv1sor1es/INCSA.2003-0x82-018-GNATS-bt.txt

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