Title: Linuxconf Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerablity
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Linuxconf is a Linux configuration utility from Solucorp. The current version, 1.10r29, is susceptible to a remote buffer overflow in the handling of the user-agent HTTP variable. By providing excessive user-supplied input to the User-agent field, it is possible for a local attacker to overflow the relevant buffer.
As a result, excessive data copied onto the stack can overwrite critical parts of the stack frame such as the calling functions' return address. Since this data is supplied by the user it can be made to alter the program's flow of execution.
If properly exploited, this can yield root privilege to the attacker.
Affected Products:
- Jacques Gelinas Linuxconf 1.1.6r10
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