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

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:22:19 +0000
From: Jimby Sharp <jimbysharp@...mail.com>
To: monikerd <monikerd@...il.com>, <joey.mengele@...hmail.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk,
	sebastian@...fgarten.com
Subject: Re: McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix v5.10.0
 Local Buffer Overflow

Security comes into play here because a user can create a malicious play that would overflow the virus scan. Consequently the user can execute code with the privileges of the user running virus scan. Thus, it is a local privilege escalation scenario. 

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> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:53:18 +0200
> From: monikerd@...il.com
> To: joey.mengele@...hmail.com
> CC: sebastian@...fgarten.com; full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk; bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix v5.10.0 Local Buffer Overflow
> 
> Joey Mengele wrote:
> > Where does security come into play here? This is a local crash in a 
> > non setuid binary. I would like to hear your remote exploitation 
> > scenario. Or perhaps your local privilege escalation scenario?
> >
> > J
> >

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