Charles Stevenson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> This has been bouncing around on vuln-dev and the debian-devel lists. It
> effects glibc >= 2.1.9x and it would seem many if not all OSes using these
> versions of glibc. Ben Collins writes, "This wasn't supposed to happen, and
> the actual fix was a missing comma in the list of secure env vars that were
> supposed to be cleared when a program starts up suid/sgid (including
> RESOLV_HOST_CONF)." The exploit varies from system to system but in our
> devel version of Yellow Dog Linux I was able to print the /etc/shadow file
> as a normal user in the following manner:
>
> export RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/etc/shadow
> ssh whatever.host.com
[Credits to ^herman^ in #hit2000 on ircnet]
A temp. sollution is to place this in /etc/services:
declare -r RESOLV_HOST_CONF
jan@flits102-93:~$ export RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/etc/shadow
bash: RESOLV_HOST_CONF: readonly variable
jan@flits102-93:~$
Regards,
Jan (Digital Overdrive)
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