Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Gaim festival plugin exploit
From: Cael Abal (lists_at_onryou.com)
Date: 10/18/03
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To: <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:58:39 -0400
>
> DUH... would help if I attached my attachment.
>
> I am right proud of myself for this, and it also needs mention to
> address the security issue that our friend Error (is that a reference to
> Zelda 2?) raised.
>
> Attached, find the latest reissue of the Gaim festival plugin. The guy
> that wrote it, wrote it for pre-0.68 Perl API, but it was secure against
> the sort of attack that Error described. I have since taken it and
> recoded it to work with post-0.68 versions of Gaim. It is attached. By
> all means, if you see an exploitable bug in there, let me know! I'm
> just a perl-tot..
Hi Brian,
This updated version is still vulnerable. You should be *very* wary of
any call to system() or fork(). Consider this input:
"This is only a test && rm -rf /"
Notice that ';' isn't the only way to inject into a commandline.
Cheers,
Cael
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