Title: HP Tru64/OSF1 DXTerm Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Tru64 and OSF1 are commercially available Unix operating systems.
The HP Tru64/OSF1 dxterm utility is prone to a locally exploitable buffer overflow condition. This issue is due to insufficient checking of command line input supplied via the "-xrm" parameter. This parameter serves the same purpose as the "-customization" command line parameter, which is also not sufficiently checked.
It is possible to trigger this condition by supplying an overly long string to either of these command line parameters. It is possible to corrupt memory with attacker-supplied data, which may result in execution of attacker-supplied instructions.
Since this utility is installed setuid root, code execution that results from successful exploitation of this issue will yield root privileges on the system.
** This vulnerability was covered in BID 5599 "HP Tru64 UNIX Multiple Local and Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities" and is now being assigned an individual Bugtraq ID.
Affected Products:
- Compaq Digital Unix 4.0.0 f
- Compaq Tru64 4.0.0 f
- Compaq Tru64 4.0.0 f PK6 (BL17)
- Compaq Tru64 4.0.0 f PK7 (BL18)
- Compaq Tru64 4.0.0 g
- Compaq Tru64 4.0.0 g PK3 (BL17)
- Compaq Tru64 5.0.0
- Compaq Tru64 5.0.0 PK4 (BL17)
- Compaq Tru64 5.0.0 PK4 (BL18)
- Compaq Tru64 5.0.0 a
- Compaq Tru64 5.0.0 a PK3 (BL17)
- Compaq Tru64 5.1.0
- Compaq Tru64 5.1.0 PK3 (BL17)
- Compaq Tru64 5.1.0 PK4 (BL18)
- Compaq Tru64 5.1.0 PK5 (BL19)
- Compaq Tru64 5.1.0 a
- Compaq Tru64 5.1.0 a PK1 (BL1)
- Compaq Tru64 5.1.0 a PK2 (BL2)
- Digital OSF/1 3.0.0
- Digital OSF/1 3.0.0 B
- Digital OSF/1 3.2.0
- Digital OSF/1 3.2.0 B
- Digital OSF/1 3.2.0 C
- Digital OSF/1 3.2.0 D
- Digital OSF/1 3.2.0 DE1
- Digital OSF/1 3.2.0 DE2
- Digital OSF/1 3.2.0 F
- Digital OSF/1 3.2.0 G
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