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RE: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 09.26.2002: Exploitable Buffer Overflow in gv

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Endler)
Thu Sep 26 15:33:16 2002

From: David Endler <dendler@idefense.com>
To: Boris Veytsman <borisv@lk.net>
Reply-To: dendler@idefense.com
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:22:09 -0600 (MDT)

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Hi Boris,

> Does not work for me:
> 
> boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ gv -v
> gv 3.5.8 (debian)
> boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ gv gv-exploit.pdf 
> Segmentation fault
> boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ ls -al /tmp/itworked
> ls: /tmp/itworked: No such file or directory

I'll quote from the advisory:

"A proof of concept exploit for Red Hat Linux designed by zen-parse
is..."
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Other OS specific exploits (i.e. Debian, etc.) with the proper
alignments and offsets I imagine would be trivial to create.

- -dave

David Endler, CISSP
Director, Technical Intelligence
iDEFENSE, Inc.
14151 Newbrook Drive
Suite 100
Chantilly, VA 20151
voice: 703-344-2632
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dendler@idefense.com
www.idefense.com

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