Re: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 09.26.2002: Exploitable Buffer Overflow in gv

From: Boris Veytsman (borisv@lk.net)
Date: 09/26/02 

Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:44:56 -0400
From: Boris Veytsman <borisv@lk.net>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com

> From: David Endler <dendler@idefense.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:58:48 -0600 (MDT)

>
> A proof of concept exploit for Red Hat Linux designed by zen-parse is
> attached to this message. It packages the overflow and shellcode in
> the "%%PageOrder:" section of the PDF.
>
> [root@victim]# ls -al /tmp/itworked
> /bin/ls: /tmp/itworked: No such file or directory
> [root@victim]# gv gv-exploit.pdf
> [root@victim]# ls -al /tmp/itworked
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 16:50 /tmp/itworked
> [root@victim]#
>

Does not work for me:

boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8 (debian)
boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ gv gv-exploit.pdf
Segmentation fault
boris@reston-0491:~/convert$ ls -al /tmp/itworked
ls: /tmp/itworked: No such file or directory 

-- 
Good luck

-Boris

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		   Fool's column.

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