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| Subject: | [Full-disclosure] [+] Vulnerability in less version 394 and prior |
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| Date: | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:29:15 -0400 |
From: glopeda@glopeda.com Application: less 394 and prior Type: Format strings vulnerability Priority: Low There exists a format strings bug in the less application present in most flavors of UNIX. It could be leveraged for privilege escalation if the calling application is setuid/setgid and does not properly drop privileges. Meager demonstration: $ export LESSOPEN=%s%n $ less somefile Segmentation fault $ See http://www.glopeda.com for more details. -- Site: http://www.glopeda.com E-mail: glopeda@glopeda.com Name: Mitch _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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