Title: Progress Database Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Progress is a commercial database for Microsoft Windows and Unix systems.
Locally exploitable buffer overflows are prevalent throughout many Progress Database programs. This is largely due to insufficient bounds checking of data which is externally supplied to strcpy functions. These problems could be exploited to allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on a host with the privileges of each individual affected program.
If the buffer is overrun then stack variables may be overwritten, including the return address, which will allow the malicious user to execute arbitrary code on the host. In the case of programs that are setuid root, this may allow the attacker to escalate their privileges to root.
This situation could be leveraged by the attacker to gain root privileges on the host.
Affected Products:
- Progress Database 8.3.0 D
- Progress Database 9.1.0 B
- Progress Database 9.1.0 C
References:
- Progress: Progress Database Product Page
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