A vulnerability was found in HP HP-UX 10.20/11.00/11.04/11.11/11.22 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component traceroute. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 traceroute in HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1a, 5.1, 5.0a, 4.0g, and 4.0f allows local users to execute arbitrary code.

The weakness was disclosed 08/31/2002 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-1608 since 03/25/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (10016) and SecurityFocus (BID 5599†). The entries VDB-18732, VDB-18736, VDB-18738 and VDB-18739 are pretty similar.

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• Operating System

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• HP

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• HP-UX

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• 10.20
• 11.00
• 11.04
• 11.11
• 11.22

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• commercial

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