A vulnerability has been found in Lgames Ltris 1.0.1 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument HOME as part of a Environment Variable 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. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in LTris 1.0.1 of FreeBSD Ports Collection 2003-02-25 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code with gid "games" permission via a long HOME environment variable.

The weakness was presented 12/31/2003 by Knud Erik Højgaard (Website). The advisory is shared for download at derkeiler.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2003-1473 since 10/24/2007. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (11978).

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• Ltris

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• 1.0.1

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