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

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Message-Id: <20070815173450.AC5AC22825@mailserver9.hushmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:34:50 -0400
From: "Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele@...hmail.com>
To: <joey.mengele@...hmail.com>,<monikerd@...il.com>
Cc: sebastian@...fgarten.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix v5.10.0
	Local Buffer Overflow

You are playing handpuppet of the jackass, actually. Check PATH_MAX 
in the Linux Kernel.

J

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:53:18 -0400 monikerd <monikerd@...il.com> 
wrote:
>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
>>
>>   
>I'll play advocate of the devil then. Imagine a wiki running on a 
>webserver,
>
>that allows anybody to create new topics which end up in
>/articles/[Topic].txt
>with sufficient .htaccess stuff in /articles to twart most usual 
>attacks ..
>
>
>If you could create an arbitrary long topic, then you *might*
>be able to execute some code, when some cronjob would scan the 
>drive
>and come across the file?
>
>creating files is a different privilege than  running code. Hence 
>imho
>it's not a bogus advisory.
>
>
>another possibility would be to create an archive that extracts an
>incredibly
>long filename perhaps? scanning an archive before/after it's 
>extracted
>is a pretty common event i guess.

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