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Re: FreeBSD 4.3 local root

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Przemyslaw Frasunek)
Wed Jul 11 11:31:17 2001

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From: "Przemyslaw Frasunek" <venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl>
To: "Seva Gluschenko" <gvs@rinet.ru>, "Bug Track" <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Cc: <security@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:31:06 +0200
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> Well, after a bunch of tests I've found only two suids which gave me
> suid shell:
> /usr/bin/passwd
> /usr/local/bin/ssh1

/usr/bin/su also works for me:

riget:venglin:~> egrep -e execl vvfreebsd.c
  if(!execl("/usr/bin/su","su","szymon",0))

riget:venglin:~> ./v
vvfreebsd. Written by Georgi Guninski
shall jump to bfbffe72
child=57660
Password:done
# id
uid=0(root) gid=1001(users) groups=1001(users), 99(rexec)

> So, quick workaround should be

Quick workaround is to limit arguments, environment and filter non-ascii
characters:

http://www.frasunek.com/sources/security/rexec/

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