full-disclosure - Re: McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix v5.10.0 Local Buffer Overflow

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:57:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Hick <leet16y@...oo.com>
To: Harry Muchow <wonderfulandromeda@...il.com>,
	Sebastian Wolfgarten <sebastian@...fgarten.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix v5.10.0
	Local Buffer Overflow

Imagine this...

One linux system maintained by admin. I do not have
root access but I can create and edit fles. Admin runs
virus scan. I create an exploit file. It exploits
virus scan. I get the privileges of the user running
the virus scan.

--- Harry Muchow <wonderfulandromeda@...il.com> wrote:

> > V - EXPLOIT CODE
> >
> > An exploit for this vulnerability has been
> developed but will not
> > released to the general public at this time.
> 
> Don't ever release that to general public. Why would
> we like to run rm
> -rf / in such a funny way? I can type the command in
> the shell if all
> I want to do is attack myself. ;-)
> 
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