Title: Rob Malda ASCDC Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
ascdc is a program written for X by Rob Malda. It is designed to provide a graphical interface to cd changing on unix systems.
ascdc provides a graphical frontend and AfterStep docking capabilities. It provides features such as mounting and umounting cd's, and activity checking on the cd-rom for automounting.
A vulnerability in the program could allow elevated privileges on a system with the package installed setuid. While the package is not installed setuid by default, documents contained with the package recommend running the program as root, or setuid to use the automounting feature.
Due to insufficent bounds checking, it is possible to execute arbitrary code with the ascdc program. Overflows in the -c, -d, and -m arguments make it possible for a user to overwrite variables on the stack, including the return address, and execute shellcode.
Affected Products:
- Rob Malda ascdc 0.3.0
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