[32119] in bugtraq
Re: Gaim festival plugin exploit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randal L. Schwartz)
Mon Oct 20 17:15:37 2003
To: HCTITS Security Division <security@humancentrictech.com>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: 20 Oct 2003 11:09:50 -0700
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>>>>> "HCTITS" == HCTITS Security Division <security@humancentrictech.com> writes:
HCTITS> DUH... would help if I attached my attachment.
Is this is repeat? I'm going to repeat myself then.
YOUR FIX DOES NOT HELP. Please use my posted fix.
>> system("echo \"$string\" | /usr/bin/festival --tts");
Replace this with
open FEST, "|/usr/bin/festival --tts";
print FEST $string, "\n";
close FEST;
No shells involved. Only DOS exploits and maybe the usual
C-language overflows in festival itself.
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