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Strategic Reconnaissance Team Security Advisory(SRT2001-02)
Topic: SCO 5.0.6 issues (recon)
Vendor: SCO
Release Date: 03/27/01
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.: Description
SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 ships with a suid root
/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/bin/recon.
Recon has poor handling of command line arguments resulting in a buffer
overflow.
The core is dumped upon feeding recon more than 1315 chars

.: Impact
/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/bin/recon `perl -e 'print "A" x 3000'`
Memory fault - core dumped

This problem makes it possible to overwrite memory space of the running
process,
and potentially execute code with the inherited privileges of root.

.: Workaround
chmod -s /opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/bin/recon

.: Systems Affected
SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 upgrade from 5.0.x and 5.0.6 fresh install.

.: Proof of Concept
To be released at a later time.

.: Vendor Status
Vendor was notified on 03/22/01. Vendor lab tests confirmed the issue. Patch
status is unknown.

.: Credit
Kevin Finisterre
dotslashsnosoft.com, krfinisterrecheckfree.com

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