exploit the possibilities
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New

FreeBSD Security Advisory 2000.53

FreeBSD Security Advisory 2000.53
Posted Sep 28, 2000
Authored by The FreeBSD Project | Site freebsd.org

FreeBSD Security Advisory - catopen() may pose security risk for third party code. The catopen() function did not correctly bounds-check an internal buffer which could be indirectly overflowed by the setting of an environment variable. A privileged application which uses catopen() could be made to execute arbitrary code by an unprivileged local user. The catopen() and setlocale() functions could be made to use an arbitrary file as the source for localized data and message catalogs, instead of one of the system files. An attacker could create a file which is a valid locale file or message catalog but which contains special formatting characters which may allow certain badly written privileged applications to be exploited and execute arbitrary code as the privileged user. Patches are available.

tags | overflow, arbitrary, local
systems | freebsd
SHA-256 | 7cb98675a822bc8edd2fd3f6bd3b7b4a6cf3569063738705e6b569c0c74c79bf

FreeBSD Security Advisory 2000.53

Login or Register to add favorites

File Archive:

March 2024

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Mar 1st
    16 Files
  • 2
    Mar 2nd
    0 Files
  • 3
    Mar 3rd
    0 Files
  • 4
    Mar 4th
    32 Files
  • 5
    Mar 5th
    28 Files
  • 6
    Mar 6th
    42 Files
  • 7
    Mar 7th
    17 Files
  • 8
    Mar 8th
    13 Files
  • 9
    Mar 9th
    0 Files
  • 10
    Mar 10th
    0 Files
  • 11
    Mar 11th
    15 Files
  • 12
    Mar 12th
    19 Files
  • 13
    Mar 13th
    21 Files
  • 14
    Mar 14th
    38 Files
  • 15
    Mar 15th
    15 Files
  • 16
    Mar 16th
    0 Files
  • 17
    Mar 17th
    0 Files
  • 18
    Mar 18th
    10 Files
  • 19
    Mar 19th
    32 Files
  • 20
    Mar 20th
    46 Files
  • 21
    Mar 21st
    16 Files
  • 22
    Mar 22nd
    13 Files
  • 23
    Mar 23rd
    0 Files
  • 24
    Mar 24th
    0 Files
  • 25
    Mar 25th
    12 Files
  • 26
    Mar 26th
    31 Files
  • 27
    Mar 27th
    19 Files
  • 28
    Mar 28th
    42 Files
  • 29
    Mar 29th
    0 Files
  • 30
    Mar 30th
    0 Files
  • 31
    Mar 31st
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close