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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:36:47 +0200
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: heap overflow in tcptrack < 1.4.2
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 06:35:45PM -0400, Steven M. Christey wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if this should have received a CVE.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377917 quotes upstream:
>
> "This fixes a heap overflow in the parsing of the command line...
> this may have security repercussions if
> tcptrack is configured as a handler for other applications that can
> pass user-supplied command line input to tcptrack."
>
> The "attack" is through a command line argument. While it's listed as a
> sniffer, the above text suggests that tcptrack might not be
> setuid/privileged, since the only given scenario is "as a handler for
> other applications." Unless this is a typical/known scenario, this seems
> like just another unprivileged application, in which case the control
> over a command line argument would not directly cross privilege
> boundaries, thus falling into the realm of "bug" and not "vulnerability."
FWIW, we're treating it as a non-security issue in Debian.
Cheers,
Moritz
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