Conquest long environment variable buffer overflow
| conquest-long-environment-bo (13640) |  High Risk |
Description:
Conquest is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. By passing a long environment variable to Conquest, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and gain group ID (GID) 'games' privileges.
Platforms Affected:
- Conquest, Conquest
- Debian, Debian Linux 3.0
Remedy:
For Debian GNU/Linux:
Upgrade to the latest conquest package, as listed below. Refer to DSA-398-1 for more information. See References.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody): 7.1.1-6woody1or later
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
References:
- BID-8996: Conquest Unspecified Local Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2003-0933: Buffer overflow in conquest 7.2 and earlier may allow a local user to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable.
- DSA-398: conquest -- buffer overflow
Reported:
Nov 10, 2003
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