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SCO 5.0.6 MMDF issues (deliver)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Secure Network Operations , Inc.)
Wed Mar 28 03:24:08 2001

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Date:         Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:31:51 +0100
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Strategic Reconnisiance Team Security Advisory(SRT2001-03)
Topic: SCO 5.0.6 MMDF issues (deliver)
Vendor: SCO
Release Date: 03/27/01
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.: Description
SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 ships with a previously known buggy MMDF package.
SCO Security Bulletin 2000.06 states "Recently Network Associates, Inc.
issued a  SECURITY ADVISORY against all versions of MMDF prior to the
beta release 2.44a-B4" however SCO still released OpenServer 5.0.6 with
version 2.43.3b of MMDF. deliver has poor processing of command line arguments
resulting in a buffer overflow /opt/K/SCO/MMDF/2.43.3b/usr/mmdf/bin/deliver
will core dump if fed more than 4085 chars.

.: Impact
/opt/K/SCO/MMDF/2.43.3b/usr/mmdf/bin/deliver `perl -e 'print "A" x 5000'`
Memory fault - core dumped

This problem makes it possible to overwrite memory space of the running 
process,
and potentially execute code with the inherited privileges of root.

.: Workaround
chmod -s /opt/K/SCO/MMDF/2.43.3b/usr/mmdf/bin/deliver

.: Systems Affected
SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 upgrade from 5.0.x and 5.0.6 fresh install.

.: Proof of Concept
To be released at a later time.

.: Vendor Status
Vendor was notified on 03/22/01. Vendor lab tests confirmed the issue. Patch
status is unknown.

.: Credit
Kevin Finisterre
dotslash@snosoft.com, krfinisterre@checkfree.com

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