|
Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com |
Re: OpenVMS fingerd remote stack overflow
From: Tim Newsham (newsham
lava.net)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 13:24:16 CDT
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:08:53AM +0100, Shaun Colley wrote:
>> The MultiNet finger service runs on port 79 by default (like other finger
>> servers) and takes a username to query. A long string (~250+ or so bytes)
>> will cause a stack overflow, giving control of a saved return address and
>> hence the program counter (PC).
>
> Hahahaha, welcome to 1988!
Old software can be so much fun.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/unix-jun72/2008-May/000126.html
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/unix-jun72/2008-May/000250.html
> Alex
Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]