Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-1542 - Unspecified vulnerability in Python
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in Python 2.4.2 and earlier, running on Linux 2.6.12.5 under gcc 4.0.3 with libc 2.3.5, allows local users to cause a "stack overflow," and possibly gain privileges, by running a script from a current working directory that has a long name, related to the realpath function. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability. However, the fact that it appears in a programming language interpreter could mean that some applications are affected, although attack scenarios might be limited because the attacker might already need to cross privilege boundaries to cause an exploitable program to be placed in a directory with a long name; or, depending on the method that Python uses to determine the current working directory, setuid applications might be affected.
Vulnerable Configurations
Exploit-Db
| description | Python <= 2.4.2 realpath() Local Stack Overflow Exploit. CVE-2006-1542. Local exploit for linux platform |
| file | exploits/linux/local/1591.py |
| id | EDB-ID:1591 |
| last seen | 2016-01-31 |
| modified | 2006-03-18 |
| platform | linux |
| port | |
| published | 2006-03-18 |
| reporter | Gotfault Security |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/1591/ |
| title | Python <= 2.4.2 realpath Local Stack Overflow Exploit |
| type | local |
Nessus
NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0264.NASL description Red Hat Network Satellite Server version 5.0.2 is now available. This update includes fixes for a number of security issues in Red Hat Network Satellite Server Solaris client components. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. This release corrects several security vulnerabilities in various components shipped as part of the Red Hat Network Satellite Server Solaris client. In a typical operating environment, these components are not used by the Satellite Server in a vulnerable manner. These security updates will reduce risk should these components be used by other applications. Two denial-of-service flaws were fixed in ZLib. (CVE-2005-2096, CVE-2005-1849) Multiple flaws were fixed in OpenSSL. (CVE-2006-4343, CVE-2006-4339, CVE-2006-3738, CVE-2006-2940, CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2005-2969) Multiple flaws were fixed in Python. (CVE-2007-4965, CVE-2007-2052, CVE-2006-4980, CVE-2006-1542) Users of Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.0.1 are advised to upgrade to 5.0.2, which resolves these issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43836 published 2010-01-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43836 title RHEL 4 : Solaris client in Satellite Server (RHSA-2008:0264) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0525.NASL description Red Hat Network Satellite Server version 4.2.3 is now available. This update includes fixes for a number of security issues in Red Hat Network Satellite Server Solaris client components. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. This release corrects several security vulnerabilities in various components shipped as part of the Red Hat Network Satellite Server Solaris client. In a typical operating environment, these components are not used by the Satellite Server in a vulnerable manner. These security updates will reduce risk should these components be used by other applications. Several flaws in Zlib was discovered. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted compressed stream that would cause an application to crash if the stream is opened by a user. (CVE-2005-2096). An attacker could create a carefully crafted compressed stream that would cause an application to crash if the stream is opened by a user. (CVE-2005-1849) A buffer overflow was discovered in the OpenSSL SSL_get_shared_ciphers() utility function. An attacker could send a list of ciphers to an application that used this function and overrun a buffer (CVE-2006-3738). A flaw in the SSLv2 client code was discovered. If a client application used OpenSSL to create an SSLv2 connection to a malicious server, that server could cause the client to crash. (CVE-2006-4343) An attack on OpenSSL PKCS #1 v1.5 signatures was discovered. Where an RSA key with exponent 3 is used it may be possible for an attacker to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that would be incorrectly verified by implementations that do not check for excess data in the RSA exponentiation result of the signature. This issue affected applications that use OpenSSL to verify X.509 certificates as well as other uses of PKCS #1 v1.5. (CVE-2006-4339) OpenSSL contained a software work-around for a bug in SSL handling in Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0.2. It is enabled in most servers that use OpenSSL to provide support for SSL and TLS. This work-around could allow an attacker, acting as a last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43838 published 2010-01-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43838 title RHEL 3 / 4 : Solaris client in Satellite Server (RHSA-2008:0525) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0629.NASL description Red Hat Network Satellite Server version 5.1.1 is now available. This update includes fixes for a number of security issues in Red Hat Network Satellite Server Solaris client components. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. This release corrects several security vulnerabilities in components shipped as part of the Red Hat Network Satellite Server Solaris client. In a typical operating environment, these components are not used by the Satellite Server in a vulnerable manner. These security updates will reduce risk should these components be used by other applications. Several flaws in Zlib were discovered. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted compressed stream that would cause an application to crash if the stream was opened by a user. (CVE-2005-2096, CVE-2005-1849) A buffer overflow was discovered in the OpenSSL SSL_get_shared_ciphers() utility function. An attacker could send a list of ciphers to an application that used this function and overrun a buffer (CVE-2006-3738). A flaw in the SSLv2 client code was discovered. If a client application used OpenSSL to create an SSLv2 connection to a malicious server, that server could cause the client to crash. (CVE-2006-4343) An attack on OpenSSL PKCS #1 v1.5 signatures was discovered. Where an RSA key with exponent 3 was used an attacker could, potentially, forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that would be incorrectly verified by implementations that do not check for excess data in the RSA exponentiation result of the signature. This issue affected applications that use OpenSSL to verify X.509 certificates as well as other uses of PKCS #1 v1.5. (CVE-2006-4339) OpenSSL contained a software work-around for a bug in SSL handling in Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0.2. It is enabled in most servers that use OpenSSL to provide support for SSL and TLS. This work-around was vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack which allowed a remote user to force an SSL connection to use SSL 2.0, rather than a stronger protocol, such as SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0. (CVE-2005-2969) During OpenSSL parsing of certain invalid ASN.1 structures, an error condition was mishandled. This could result in an infinite loop which consumed system memory (CVE-2006-2937). Certain public key types could take disproportionate amounts of time to process in OpenSSL, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2940) A flaw was discovered in the Python repr() function last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43839 published 2010-01-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43839 title RHEL 4 : Solaris client in Satellite Server (RHSA-2008:0629)
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Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2007-03-14 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187900 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch. |