HP Tru64 4.0f/4.0g/5.1a memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in HP Tru64 4.0f/4.0g/5.1a. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in the POSIX Threads library (libpthread) on HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F PK8, 4.0G PK4, and 5.1A PK6 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long PTHREAD_CONFIG environment variable.

The weakness was shared 12/10/2006 by Adriel T. Desautels (Website). The advisory is shared at www2.itrc.hp.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-6418 since 12/09/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (30178).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: www2.itrc.hp.com
Researcher: Adriel T. Desautels
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-6418 (🔍)
X-Force: 30178 - HP Tru64 libpthread buffer overflow
SecurityTracker: 1017211
SecurityFocus: 21035 - HP Tru64 POSIX Threads Library Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 22743 - HP Tru64 libpthread "PTHREAD_CONFIG" Privilege Escalation, Less Critical
Vupen: ADV-2006-4483

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/12/2015 22:21
Updated: 08/10/2018 06:33
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (59), 08/10/2018 06:33 (8)
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