imwheel Home memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in imwheel and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument Home as part of Environment Variable leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2000-0230. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in imwheel. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument HOME 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 imwheel allows local users to gain root privileges via the imwheel-solo script and a long HOME environmental variable.

The weakness was shared 03/13/2000 by Basti (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2000-0230. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (19811) and SecurityFocus (BID 1060†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

  • Halloween Linux 4.0
  • Red Hat Linux 6.1/6.2

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

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06/23/2014 +5215 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: This vulnerability was posted to the Bugtraq mailing list by Sebastian on March 16, 2000. (Basti)
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2000-0230 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2000-0230
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-15389
SecurityFocus: 1060 - Multiple Linux vendor imwheel Vulnerability

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

Entryinfo

Created: 06/24/2014 00:32
Updated: 11/25/2024 17:01
Changes: 06/24/2014 00:32 (53), 04/05/2019 16:38 (2), 10/08/2020 14:12 (1), 11/25/2024 17:01 (19)
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Cache ID: 216:031:103

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