HP-UX landiag and lanadmin buffer overflows
| hp-landiag-lanadmin-bo (11314) |  High Risk |
Description:
HP-UX is vulnerable to buffer overflows in the /usr/sbin/landiag and /usr/sbin/lanadmin programs, which are Local Area Network (LAN) diagnostic and administration programs. A local attacker could exploit these buffer overflows to execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
Platforms Affected:
- HP, HP-UX 11.0.4
- HP, HP-UX 11.00
- HP, HP-UX 11.04
- HP, HP-UX 11.10
- HP, HP-UX 11.11
- HP, HP-UX 11.11i
- HP, HP-UX 11.2
- HP, HP-UX 11.20
- HP, HP-UX 11.22
- HP, HP-UX 11.23
- HP, HP-UX 11.31
- HP, HP-UX 11.4
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
References:
- BID-6834: HP-UX landiag/lanadmin Environment Variable Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2003-1360: Buffer overflow in the setupterm function of (1) lanadmin and (2) landiag programs of HP-UX 10.0 through 10.34 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long TERM environment variable.
Reported:
Feb 12, 2003
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