Acon HOME buffer overflow
| acon-home-bo (41915) |  High Risk |
Description:
Acon is vulnerable to multiple stack-based buffer overflows, caused by improper bounds checking by acon.c, menu.c, and child.c. By sending an overly large $HOME variable or terminal columns number, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges.
Platforms Affected:
- Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Mohamed, Acon 1.0.5-5
- Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Mohamed, Acon 1.0.5-6
- Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Mohamed, Acon 1.0.5-7
Remedy:
No remedy available as of August 30, 2008.
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
References:
- Acon Web page, Acon at http://members.tripod.com/ahmedahamid/arabic/arabic.html#Acon.
- Debian Bug report logs - #475733, acon: local root exploit at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475733.
- Debian Bug report logs - #476603, acon: multiple buffer overflows at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476603.
- BID-28862: Acon Multiple Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2008-1994: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (a) acon.c, (b) menu.c, and (c) child.c in Acon 1.0.5-5 through 1.0.5-7 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long HOME environment variable or (2) a large number of terminal columns.
- SA29909: Acon Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Reported:
Apr 12, 2008
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