CVE-2014-5439 - Root shell on Sniffit
Sniffit is a packet sniffer and monitoring tool.
The attacker can create a specially-crafted sniffit configuration file,
which is able
to bypass all three protection mechanisms:
- Non-eXecutable bit NX
- Stack Smashing Protector SSP
- Address Space Layout Randomisation ASLR
And execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Exploit, fix and discussion in:
http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2014-5439-sniffit_0.3.7-stack-buffer-overflow.html
Regards,
Hector Marco.
http://hmarco.org
Cybersecurity researcher at:
http://cybersecurity.upv.es/
