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Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability
From: Torsten Mueller <torsten () archesoft de>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:33:29 +0100
Florian Heinz schrieb:
Hello, Under certain conditions it is possible to execute arbitrary code using a buffer overflow in the recent qpopper. You need a valid username/password-combination and code is (depending on the setup) usually executed with the user's uid and gid mail.
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This is the short version. An enhanced version with error-checking, bufsize- and return-address autodetection can be found on http://nstx.dereference.de/snippets/qex.c Feedback is welcome.
... and here it comes ;-) I tested http://nstx.dereference.de/snippets/qex.c against 3 selfcompiled qpopper4.0.4 on 3 different machines. I can confirm, that on one machine "it worked", i got a shell. More interesting for me is of course, if you can provide a patch against 4.0.4 to close this vulnerability. Greetings Torsten
Current thread:
- QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Florian Heinz (Mar 11)
- Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Torsten Mueller (Mar 12)
- Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Florian Heinz (Mar 12)
- Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Randall Gellens (Mar 12)
- Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Florian Heinz (Mar 12)
- Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Harald Hellmuth (Mar 13)
- Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Jaroslaw Zachwieja (Mar 12)
- RE: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Mar 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Jonas Frey (Mar 11)
- Re: QPopper 4.0.x buffer overflow vulnerability Torsten Mueller (Mar 12)