Re: /usr/bin/doscmd on BSDI

[imp () HARMONY VILLAGE ORG (Warner Losh)]

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990314002501.15534A-100000 () ds9 axsny net> kasper writes:
: finally:~ $ /usr/bin/doscmd `perl -e 'print "A" x 1015'`
: Segmentation fault
:
: doscmd is setuid executable as well.

On FreeBSD, where doscmd wasn't built by default until quite recently,
I was able to reproduce this buffer overflow.  In fixing it, I found
several others that were hard to find/fix and I was able to move the
buffer overflow to a place later in the program :-(.  It appears that
much work will need to be done to rid this program of the buffer
overflows from this one, simple example.

I took the precaution of removing the setgid kmem bit from the
installed binary until these issues can be resolved.  The buffer
overflows look like they could be exploitable, at least in FreeBSD's
version.  I have quite a few core files that show an illegal address
of 0x41414141.

Warner