A vulnerability was found in Compaq Tru64. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component dxterm. The manipulation of the argument -xrm with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in dxterm allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -xrm argument.

The weakness was presented 10/04/2002 by Euan Briggs with SNOSoft (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2002-1129. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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

See 19031 and 19032 for similar entries.

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• Compaq

Name

• Tru64

Version

• 4.0f
• 4.0f Pk6 Bl17
• 4.0f Pk7 Bl18
• 4.0g
• 4.0g Pk3 Bl17
• 5.0
• 5.0 Pk4 Bl17
• 5.0 Pk4 Bl18
• 5.0a
• 5.0a Pk3 Bl17
• 5.1
• 5.1 Pk3 Bl17
• 5.1 Pk4 Bl18
• 5.1 Pk5 Bl19
• 5.1a
• 5.1a Pk1 Bl1
• 5.1a Pk2 Bl2

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• commercial

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