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- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 14:36:26 +0100
- From: Chris Evans <chris@FERRET.LMH.OX.AC.UK>
- To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
- Subject: Minor hole in "cxhextris" on certain Linux.
-
- Hi,
-
- [This is a minor problem]
-
- On my RedHat Linux systems, cxhextris has a binary called "xhextris", and
- it runs under the euid "games".
-
- -rwsr-xr-x 1 games games 49688 Apr 25 14:02 /usr/X11R6/bin/xhextris
-
- A bug in this program will allow local users to subvert the user "games",
- perhaps using this to then hide their activities (or cheat in the high
- score table!! :-)
-
- Details:
-
- The name of the player can optionally be taken from the environment
- variable "XHEXNAME":
-
- xio.c: if ((name = (char *)getenv("XHEXNAME")) == NULL)
-
- This can obviously be of an arbitrary length.
-
- When a high score is achieved:
-
- strcpy(high_scores[i].name, name);
-
- This overflows a buffer on the stack of the function main().
-
- At the same time this is fixed, the following should also be fixed:
-
- xio.c: #ifdef LOG
- strcpy(log_message,log_name);
-
- log_name can come from getenv("USER") on admittedly rare circumstances.
-
- Cheers
- Chris
-