screen buffer overflow
Christian Pearce
pearcec at commnav.com
Wed Jan 7 17:44:35 UTC 2004
Jason claimed testing the vulnerability was not trivial. I am not certain. We can come up with RedHat 8 packages. I can put one together right now.
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Christian Pearce
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Jesse Keating said:
>
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 20:22, Jason wrote:
> > The 7.3 rpms work for me.. I don't have a 7.2 box available to test
> > that one.
> >
> > The default in 7.3 is to not suid the screen binary, so I think we're
> > safe from privilege escalation (unless the user does it of their own
> > volition). But, I am a bit concerned with the idea that someone
> > could hijack my screen session. So, is this a patch we want to push?
> > If so, we should patch the RH8 rpms as well. RH hasn't yet released
> > a patch for 9, though it has a vulnerable version.
>
> Since I use screen daily on a 7.3 box, this is a fairly important one to
> me. I'd like to see it fixed for 8 as well. Hopefully I'll have a 7.2
> box up to test tonight although it may have to wait for a harddrive ):
>
> Do you have a way of testing the overflow, or are we just testing
> functionality of screen once this patch is added?
>
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