full-disclosure - Re: Advisory: sudo 1.8 Format String Vulnerability

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:14:00 -0500
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@...rtesan.com>
To: Agostino Sarubbo <ago@...too.org>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Advisory: sudo 1.8 Format String Vulnerability

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:38:25 +0100, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:

> The first says:
> adding -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 to the OSDEFS line in src/Makfile and rebuilding 
> sudo will prevent the bug from being exploited.
> 
> The second says:
> he above example shows the result of FORTIFY_SOURCE which makes explotitation
>  
> painful but not impossible (see [0]). Without FORTIFY_SOURCE the exploit is 
> straight forward.
> 
> something should be corrected?

joernchen is correct, it is probably still possible to exploit with
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, though it is more difficult.  On systems with
ASLR and a non-executable stack it should be even harder.

I've updated http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html to
reflect this.

 - todd

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