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Quick Summary:
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Advisory Number : SRT2003-06-13-1009
Product : Progress Database dbagent
Version : Versions 9.1 up to 9.1D06
Vendor : progress.com
Class : local
Criticality : High (to all Progress users)
Operating System(s) : Linux, SunOS, SCO, TRU64, *nix
High Level Explanation
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High Level Description : Poor usage of dlopen() causes local root
compromise
What to do : chmod -s /usr/dlc/bin/_dbagent
Technical Details
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Proof Of Concept Status : SNO has exploits for the described situation
Low Level Description :
Progress applications make the use of several helper .dll and .so binaries.
When looking for shared object files _dbagent looks at the argument passed
to the command line option "-installdir". No verification is performed
upon the object that is located thus local non super users can make
themselves root.
This vulnerability is a rehash of SRT2003-06-13-0945.txt with the
difference being the method by which the application determines where the
dlopen() should search.
elguapo@rh8 9.1C]$ cat /usr/dlc/version
echo PROGRESS Version 9.1C as of Thu Jun 7 10:03:59 EDT 2001
here we are using "-installdir /tmp" as the options to _dbagent
snprintf("/tmp/lib/librocket_r.so",303,"%s/lib/%s","/tmp","librocket_r.so")
memset(0xbfffece0, '\000', 303) = 0xbfffece0
strncpy(0xbfffece0, "/tmp/lib/librocket_r.so", 303) = 0xbfffece0
dlopen("/tmp/lib/librocket_r.so", 257
This is a fake _init in the fake libjutil.so
uid=0(root) gid=500(elguapo) groups=500(elguapo)
a valid work around to nearly any Progress security hole is to remove the
suid bit from all binaries
Vendor Status : Patch will be in version 10.x
Bugtraq URL : to be assigned
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the described vulnerability. Exploit source code is no longer released
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