On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:48:17AM -0500, Bob Howard wrote: > Izik wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > i've found buffer overflow in uucp. in BSDi platform > ... > > since uucp is by nature suid. and the ownership is by uucp > > i don't see the real profit. > > Don't know about BSDi, but on Solaris uucp owns tip, uuencode, uudecode, > and others. So if I can use this vuln to su uucp, I can trojan e.g. > tip. Then the next time root runs what he thinks is tip, I've got the > box. on solaris: $ grep uucp /etc/inetd.conf uucp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.uucpd in.uucpd $ ls -ld /usr/sbin/in.uucpd -r-xr-xr-x 1 uucp 9940 Jul 16 1997 /usr/sbin/in.uucpd dunno if its the default, but it worked for me in 1995, and some boxes still have this set up. Adam
