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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Linux up to 6.0 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Telnet Daemon. The manipulation of the argument TERMCAP
as part of a Environment Variable leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
buffer overflow in telnet daemon tgetent routing allows remote attackers to gain root access via the termcap environmental variable.
The bug was discovered 10/21/1997. The weakness was presented 10/18/1997 by LINUX with Redhat. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-0192. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.
A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (610). See 14000 for similar entry.
Affected
- Red Hat Linux up to 6.0
- Slackware Linux up to 4.0
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown
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Remote: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comResearcher: LINUX
Organization: Redhat
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-1999-0192 (🔍)
X-Force: 610
Vulnerability Center: 15574 - Telnet Daemon Buffer Overflow Allows Remote Root Access, Critical
SecurityFocus: 588 - Multiple Vendor Termcap tgetent() Buffer Overflow
OSVDB: 1047 - RedHat and Slackware Linux, Buffer Overflow in Termcap Tgetent() Function
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 06/18/2014 16:30Updated: 07/21/2019 16:17
Changes: 06/18/2014 16:30 (61), 07/21/2019 16:17 (10)
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