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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1998: Re: Solaris 2.4 pop buffer overrun

Re: Solaris 2.4 pop buffer overrun

Matthew R. Potter (mpotterKMFDM.SYSTEM.GIP.NET)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 16:29:22 -0400

At 06:55 PM 8/5/98 +0200, you wrote:
>An old one I guess known but I never saw it in the list:
>
>Solaris 2.4 popper has an overflow in the username explotaible obviously
>as root.
>It's also easy to get root's shadow entry in the core dumped just failing to
>log as root before overruning the username.

Depending on the revision level of 2.4 the dump will follow symolic and
hard links, So why wait to crack the root password when you can slam a few
files and get a full fledged uid of 0. core() is wack in pre 2.5.1(may 96)
versions.

Matt