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TITLE:
ArcInfo Workstation Format String and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15196

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15196/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
ArcInfo Workstation 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/5023/

DESCRIPTION:
Kevin Finisterre has reported some vulnerabilities in ArcInfo
Workstation, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.

1) A format string error in the "lockmgr" and "wservice" applications
can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges via a
specially crafted "ARCHOME" environment variable.

Successful exploitation requires that the ArcStorm or Geoprocessing
Server feature is enabled.

2) Some boundary errors in the handling of command line arguments in
the applications "asmaster", "asrecovery", "asuser", "asutility" and
"se" can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via an overly long
command line argument.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with
root privileges, but requires that the ArcStorm or Geoprocessing
Server feature is enabled.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 9.0 for UNIX. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Remove any setuid bits set on applications in the "$ARCHOME/bin"
directory (see ESRI advisory).

Install patch (see ESRI advisory).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Kevin Finisterre

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Kevin Finisterre:
http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2005-0425a%5D.txt

ESRI:
http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=14&MetaID=1015

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