full-disclosure - ipcs on HP-UX 11.0

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From: jon at terrasecurity.co.uk (jon@...rasecurity.co.uk)
Subject: ipcs on HP-UX 11.0

I found a vulnerability with ipcs a while back (January 2002), but on a 
different platform. Details:

% uname -a
Digital UNIX V4.0F  (Rev. 1229) ; OSF1 V4.0 1229 alpha
% ls -l /usr/bin/ipcs
-rws--x--x   1 root     bin        32768 Jun  3  1999 /usr/bin/ipcs
% /usr/bin/ipcs -N `perl -e "print 'A' x 314"`
Segmentation fault

There was also an overflow with the -K option if I remember correctly.

I reported this problem to Compaq, the vulnerability was confirmed, and 
the bug was assigned a tracking number. Since then I have not been able 
to get any information from Compaq on this issue.

Can anyone confirm this on a later version?

Jon

bt@...fi.lt wrote:
>  Hi!
>  There is a buffer overflow in /usr/bin/ipcs on HP-UX 11.0 (other versions might be
> vulnerable too).
>  $ ls -al /usr/bin/ipcs
>  -r-xr-sr-x   1 bin        sys          28672 Apr 23  1999 /usr/bin/ipcs
>  $ /usr/bin/ipcs -C `perl -e 'print "A" x 2232'`
>  Segmentation fault
> All ipcs vulnerabilities I know about are on HP Tru64.
> This system was patched with PHCO_18374 - the lastest patch for ipcs.
> I just wondering if it was known before, and if it was - maybe someone has a working proof
> of concept on this.
> bt@...fi.lt