Description
recon in SCO OpenServer 5.0 through 5.0.6 can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a buffer overflow attack in the first command line argument.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- SCO Open Server 5.0.6 - recon Buffer Overflow EDB-20742 · dos · Mar 27, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- sco-openserver-recon-bo(6289) vdb-entry
- 20010327 SCO 5.0.6 issues (recon) mailing-list
- 20010412 SSE072B: SCO OpenServer revision of buffer overflow fixes mailing-list