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[STX] Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

acestatic-x.org
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 12:39:11 CDT


Multiple files vulnerable to a buffer overflow:

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gnuchess is an updated version of the GNU chess playing program. It has a
simple alpha-numeric board display, an IBM PC compatible interface, or it
can be compiled for use with the chesstool program on a SUN workstation or
with the xboard program under X-windows.

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gnuan produces an analysis of a chess game. For each move it shows the
move, the score and the principle variation selected by gnuchess.

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isdnrep reads the isdnlog log files, generates reports, does
statistics, and other things. It can also generate HTML output for use
with a web server.

; By default the above are not suid.

proof of concept code for the above can be found at:
http://www.static-x.org/hax.php?pwned=code