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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2005-3346 EUVD-2005-3345GHSA-rv45-fc47-3rhr

Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment va…

Published Nov 20, 2005 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by debian

Description

Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LD_PRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVAR=arg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv function call.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 3.1 osh 1.7-13sarge1 DSA-918-1
Debian 3.0 osh 1.7-11woody2 DSA-918-1

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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Advisories 1

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