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Re: zlibscan : script to find suid binaries possibly affected by zlib vulnerability


From: Bernd Jendrissek <berndj () prism co za>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:24:05 +0200

In article <Pine.BSO.4.33.0203112131260.11537-100000 () brained org> hologram <holo () brained org> wrote:
The following is a quick shell script to find suid binaries that are
potentially affected by the zlib vulnability (i.e., those dynamically
linked).

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[snip again]

I'm more concerned about *statically* linked binaries, since dynamically
linked binaries should automagically use the patched libz when it is
installed.

# find / -type f -print0 |xargs -0 strings -af |grep '\(in\|de\)flate.*\(Gailly\|Adler\)'
(Apologies to Gailly and Adler.)

Besides the usual suspects (/usr/lib/libz*, etc.) here are some binaries I
would consider "sensitive":
/bin/rpm
/sbin/install-info
"Never install packages from untrusted sources"
/sbin/sash
Understandable, sa == Stand-Alone
lots of stuff under /usr/X11R6/bin - of course
/usr/bin/rpm2cpio
/usr/bin/cvs
So anoncvs can "fix" gcc to become like dmr's trusting-trust C compiler?
/usr/bin/rsync
/usr/lib/kaffe/libawt-1.0.6.so
some stuff under /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/sbin/pppdump
Now all you need to do is dial up and send some bogus compressed PPP?
Unlimited ISP access?  Neat!

Bernd Jendrissek


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