Sun Solaris 2.6/7.0 dtmail MAIL memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Sun Solaris 2.6/7.0. This affects an unknown part of the component dtmail. Such manipulation of the argument MAIL as part of Environment Variable leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2001-0548. Moreover, an exploit is present. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Sun Solaris 2.6/7.0 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component dtmail. The manipulation of the argument MAIL 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. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in dtmail in Solaris 2.6 and 7 allows local users to gain privileges via the MAIL environment variable.

The bug was discovered 07/24/2001. The weakness was disclosed 08/14/2001 by NSFOCUS with NSFOCUS Security as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2001-0548. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 21 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6879), Exploit-DB (21024), SecurityFocus (BID 3081†), OSVDB (8696†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-20827†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: NSFOCUS
Organization: NSFOCUS Security
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2001-0548 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2001-0548
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-17162
X-Force: 6879
SecurityFocus: 3081 - Solaris DTMail Mail Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
OSVDB: 8696 - Sun Solaris OS, Buffer Overflow via DTMail Environment Variable
Vulnerability Center: 20827 - Sun Solaris 2.6 and 7 Buffer Overflow in dtmail Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, High

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

Entryinfo

Created: 07/08/2014 00:25
Updated: 01/04/2025 23:21
Changes: 07/08/2014 00:25 (69), 08/27/2019 08:44 (3), 01/04/2025 23:21 (19)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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