[Full-disclosure] McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix v5.10.0 Local Buffer Overflow

[Joey Mengele]

You are playing handpuppet of the jackass, actually. Check PATH_MAX 
in the Linux Kernel.

J

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:53:18 -0400 monikerd <monikerd at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>Joey Mengele wrote:
>> Where does security come into play here? This is a local crash 
>in a 
>> non setuid binary. I would like to hear your remote exploitation 
>
>> scenario. Or perhaps your local privilege escalation scenario?
>>
>> J
>>
>>   
>I'll play advocate of the devil then. Imagine a wiki running on a 
>webserver,
>
>that allows anybody to create new topics which end up in
>/articles/[Topic].txt
>with sufficient .htaccess stuff in /articles to twart most usual 
>attacks ..
>
>
>If you could create an arbitrary long topic, then you *might*
>be able to execute some code, when some cronjob would scan the 
>drive
>and come across the file?
>
>creating files is a different privilege than  running code. Hence 
>imho
>it's not a bogus advisory.
>
>
>another possibility would be to create an archive that extracts an
>incredibly
>long filename perhaps? scanning an archive before/after it's 
>extracted
>is a pretty common event i guess.

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