Serial line sniffer (slsnif) HOME buffer overflow
| slsnif-home-bo (24082) |  High Risk |
Description:
Serial line sniffer (slsnif) is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. By supplying an overly long HOME environment variable to /usr/local/bin/slsnif, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
Platforms Affected:
- Serial line sniffer, Serial line sniffer 0.4.4
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
References:
- Shellcoders.com, January 11, 2005, Serial Line Sniffer 0.4.4 Buffer Overflow at http://www.shellcoders.com/sintigan/slsnif-ploit.pl.
- SourceForge.net, Serial line sniffer at https://sourceforge.net/projects/slsnif/.
- CVE-2006-0196: Unspecified vulnerability in Serial line sniffer (aka slsnif) 0.4.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a long value of the HOME environment variable, possibly because of a buffer overflow.
- SA18497: Serial Line Sniffer "HOME" Environment Variable Buffer Overflow
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-0212: Serial Line Sniffer HOME Environment Variable Local Buffer Overflow
Reported:
Jan 11, 2006
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