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HylaFAX vulnerability (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcin Dawcewicz)
Thu Apr 12 15:34:36 2001

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Date:         Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:30:48 +0200
Reply-To: Marcin Dawcewicz <miv@IIDEA.PL>
From: Marcin Dawcewicz <miv@IIDEA.PL>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

In fact /usr/sbin/hfaxd is SUID to root _not_ uucp as I stated in my
previous message. Sorry for this mistake.

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pozdrawiam,

-= Marcin Dawcewicz =-         mailto: miv@gnu.org.pl
"When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free"

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 03:22:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Marcin Dawcewicz <miv@iidea.pl>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: HylaFAX vulnerability


Hi,

I've found classical format bug while I was playing with HylaFAX
server (v4.1 beta2):

$ [ -u /usr/sbin/hfaxd ] && /usr/sbin/hfaxd -q '%n%n'    # SUID uucp
Segmentation fault

It crashes while calling syslog() with user supplied fmt. Looks nasty.

Sorry, I have no working exploit, I won't have one and I have no idea if
there are other similar bugs in HylaFAX. I just taught it will be nice to
bring this case to your attention, guys. Maybe someone, who has more time
than I have can do a little more research.


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greets,

-= Marcin Dawcewicz =-         mailto: miv@gnu.org.pl
"When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free"

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