Re: Format String Vulnerability in Tripwire

[Ron Forrester <rjf () tripwire com>]

In-Reply-To: <20040602234116.9A3674A5B () frenchfries net>


Just a quick note that Tripwire confirms this vulnerability exists in our currently shipping commercial versions of 
Tripwire for Servers as well as the Open Source release on Sourceforge.

We have patched our commercial code base and the fix will be in the next version of TFS in early Q3 (August timeframe). 

I will endeavor to patch the sourceforge code base as soon as possible. In the meantime, it is strongly recommended 
that you apply Paul's patch and rebuild from source.

A big thanks to Paul for bringing this to our (and the communities) attention.

Ron Forrester
Security Architect
Tripwire, Inc.


> SUMMARY
> -------
> Tripwire(tm) is a Security, Intrusion Detection, Damage Assessment
> and Recovery, Forensics software.
>
> A vulnerability in the product allows a user on the local machine
> under certain circumstances to execute arbitrary code with the
> rights of the user running the program (typically root).
>
>
> VERSIONS AFFECTED
> -----------------
> Tripwire commercial versions <= 2.4
> Tripwire open source versions <= 2.3.1